"Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?"

-- Susan Jeffers

#Leadership Quotes #Differences Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.”
“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use theyâ€™ll make of you? Maybe youâ€™ll help them to persuade people to buy things they donâ€™t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.”
“Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man”

Source : "The Arte of English Poesie". Book by George Puttenham and Richard Puttenham, 1589.
“I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.”
“I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.”
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
“There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.”
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Oct 28, 2016

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