"Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves."

-- George F. Kennan

#Judging Quotes #Tendencies Quotes #Relation Quotes

“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Oct 28, 2016
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.”

Source : "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.
“If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.
“Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.”
“I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.”

Source : "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.
“The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.53, Routledge
“In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.11, Vintage

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