"The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take."

--

Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

Robert Zoellick

#Trying Quotes #Branches Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.”
“Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.”
“When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.”

Source : Greg Iles (2011). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster
“All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.”
“I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.”
“Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.”
“I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.”

Source : "Being John Cusack", www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.
“Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.”

Source : Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

You may also like:

Christine Lagarde
Lawyer
David Petraeus
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
James Wolfensohn
Lawyer
Jim Yong Kim
Physician
John Negroponte
United States Ambassador to the Philippines
Lawrence Summers
Former Undersecretary for International Affairs
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Economist
Pascal Lamy
Businessman
Paul Wolfowitz
Ambassador