"There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Honesty Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.”

Source : "The UnReal Times’ exclusive analysis of Gujarat elections with Navjot Singh Sidhu". Interview with Ashwin Kumar, www.theunrealtimes.com. December 20, 2012.
“I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.”

Source : "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.
“You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.”
“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
“I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.”
“An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.”
“[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others.”

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