"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."

-- Yogi Berra

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“Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.”
“Let`s be the Democrats we know we have always been. And maybe every once in a when an opposition that lets you get even more tougher and clear about what you`re about. I think that`s a good thing for Democrats.”
“Today when I begin writing Iâ€™m aware: something that I donâ€™t understand drives this engine.”
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.”
“We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.”
“There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.”
“Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.”

Source : Justin Menkes (2013). “Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

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