"When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top."

-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Starting Quotes #Bottom Quotes #Willing To Learn Quotes

“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relationâ€”and yours tooâ€”to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secretâ€™s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.”
“I'm obsessed with my children.”
“London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.”
“The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.”
“It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth â€“ to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.”

Source : "Graça Machel on Mandela: 'I learned to separate the man from the myth'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.”
“Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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