"Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it."

-- Julia Gillard

#Leadership Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes

“Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.”
“You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.”
“My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.”

Source : "Torrid-hitting Giant making name for self" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 2012.
“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”
“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?”
“I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.”
“I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want”

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