"Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth."

-- James MacGregor Burns

#Earth Quotes #Understood Quotes

“Elvis Presley isÂ the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.”
“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.”
“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.”
“I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.”
“You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.”
“I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”

Source : "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.
“Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.”
“A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.”

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