"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."

-- Colin Powell

#Country Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.”
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.”
“Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.”
“To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.”
“Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.”

Source : Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.114, Harvard University Press
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”

Source : Bill Nye (2015). “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World”, p.370, St. Martin's Press
“There is no wisdom but in death”

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