"Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable."

-- Jean Rostand

#Book Quotes #Forgettable Quotes

“Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, sheâ€™s not coming back”
“It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.”
“I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.”
“I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.”
“The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.”
“The most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies. Ironically their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers. And these problems make family businesses probably the most difficult to operate.”

Source : Harry Levinson (2006). “Harry Levinson on the Psychology of Leadership”, Harvard Business School Press
“All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.”

Source : "Selected Works, 1941 - 1948" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1974.

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