"Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.”

Source : "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“Boston is known for its innovation.”
“Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.”
“Courage is the most important thing...Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination... Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. Have great courage and patience - and be not afraid of water, fire or great storms - face them bravely. Face the fire and it will turn to ice. This requires control of mind and a firm determination.”
“Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.”
“The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.”
“If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.”
“Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.”

Source : Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.121, Taylor Trade Publications

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