"[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting."

-- Julio Cortazar

#Heaven Quotes #Depth Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.”
“To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.”
“The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.”
“In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.”
“There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!”
“My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.”
“As we started working with leaders, providing them with assessment feedback, noticing the impact it was having on them, and their teams, a real story unfolded, and the book All the Leader You Can Be became what it is now - a guide to leaders who want to understand their strengths, and also appreciate how to enhance their leadership.”

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