"In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you."

-- Paul Keating

#Leadership Quotes #Keys Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.”
“It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.”
“When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.”
“When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.”
“The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.”

Source : William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly (2001). “The poetry blues: essays and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.”

Source : "Russia at War, 1941-1945" by Alexander Werth, (p. 779), 1964.

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