"Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause."

-- Charles Handy

#Leadership Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.”
“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”

Source : John Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.415
“Events are not a matter of chance.”

Source : Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”
“Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.”
“If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.”
“There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend.”

Source : Washington Express, January 4, 2006.
“I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.”
“twice I have lived forever in a smile”

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