"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

-- Henry A. Kissinger

#Leadership Quotes #Names Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations”
“I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
“I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.”
“It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.”

Source : Harry Magdoff (1966). “Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism”
“I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.”
“Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.”
“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

Source : "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, The Paris Review, Issue 188, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2009.

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