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“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.”
Source : "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.
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“I've been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I'll keep competing each year as long as I'm still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.”
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“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”
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“My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?”
Source : Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69
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“One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.”
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“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.”
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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”
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“The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.”
Source : Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)