"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Leadership Quotes #Power Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”
“I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.”

Source : "A Lesson in the Art of Storytelling: An Interview with Alistair MacLeod". Interview with William Baer, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2005.
“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.”

Source : Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.179, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.”
“In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.”
“I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.”
“If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”

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