"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."

-- Woodrow Wilson

#Teamwork Quotes #Power Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or not. I think my father believed this because ... when the wind blew on him, he'd get angry, because it was something he couldn't control.”
“I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.”

Source : "The art of smack: Some of the best ever trash talkers share their tricks". Interview with Jim Corbett, www.usatoday.com. January 27, 2014.
“I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

Source : William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135
“But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.”
“If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.”

Source : "The affectionate shepherd". Book by Richard Barnfield, 1594.
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.”

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