"Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything."

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Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

William Macneile Dixon

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“Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..”
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.”

Source : "Email (let's drop the hyphen)". Article on a personal home page at Stanford University, www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.
“A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.”
“Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.”
“Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.”
“How often have I rattled on with God and said nothing at all? Relying on clichÃ©s, throwaway phrases, and high language I'd never use in everyday conversation, I took prayer for granted and lost sight of the wondrous opportunity to draw close to God.”
“Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.”
“Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.”

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