"It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Allen C. Guelzo

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.”

Source : "Malin Akerman Talks ROCK OF AGES, the Stalled Linda Lovelace Movie, and Playing Debbie Harry in CBGB". Press day, collider.com. June 16, 2012.
“I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.”
“'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.”
“I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.”
“Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.”
“Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.”
“Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.”
“In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.”

Source : "A conversation with award-winning recording artist David Crowder". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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