"Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character."

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Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

Mark Hopkins

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“The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.10, Profile Books
“I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.”
“You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.”
“There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Aspergerâ€™s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.”
“Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.”

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“I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.”
“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant”
“As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.”

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