"We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct magnanimity, in short does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Integrity Quotes #Passion Quotes #Artist Quotes

“It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.”
“I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.”

Source : "Five Minutes with Shepard Smith". FOX News interview, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2005.
“The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.”
“The best things can't be told,”
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
“Leave women to find their sphere.”
“The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.”
“I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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