"Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others"

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Character Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.”

Source : Jason Kilar's Commencement Address at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, www.c-span.org. May 10, 2015.
“Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.”
“It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.7
“I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.”
“I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.”

Source : "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.
“â€Ž''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.”
“Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.”
“I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.”

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