"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

-- Jock Sturges

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“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”
“Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.”
“If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.”
“If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”

Source : Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press
“You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.”

Source : Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown
“In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.”

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