"All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room."

-- Edward Zigler

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”
“Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.”
“If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.”
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.”
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.”
“I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.”
“If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.”

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