"Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice."

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Character Quotes #Science Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.”

Source : "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.
“I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.”
“Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.”
“the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”
“If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.”
“Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.9, The Other Press
“The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.”
“The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.”

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