"The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops."

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Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.23, Green Dragon Books

John Heider

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“[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.”
“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded oneâ€™s own arrival and will survive oneâ€™s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.”
“Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”
“Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.”
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.”
“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”
“I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.”

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