"Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done."

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Source : Yukio Mishima (2010). “After The Banquet”, p.10, Random House

Yukio Mishima

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Unconventional Quotes

“It's like time travel only, you know, slower...”
“The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.”
“Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.”
“~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~”
“Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.”
“We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.”
“...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?”

Source : M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.93, Crimson Romance
“Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.”

Source : "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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