"There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done."

-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Important Quotes #Done Quotes #Half Quotes

“Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.”
“Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.”
“The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.”

Source : Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.273, Sheffield Publishing
“I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.”
“But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?”
“Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.”
“The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.”
“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”

Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.201, Library of America

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