#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Ideas Quotes
“When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.”
“I told the truth about ***** and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction. Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility”
“I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.”
“It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”
“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.”
“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”
Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”
“I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.”
Source : "Tea Time". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2010.
Hanshan Poet
Lafcadio Hearn Writer
Miyamoto Musashi Author
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
