Quotes
Authors
Marvin Olasky

"Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions."

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

Marvin Olasky

#Clever Quotes #Book Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I can be naked as long as I'm wearing the right pair of shoes.”
“I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.”
“I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, thatâ€™s what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, Iâ€™m just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make.”

Source : FaceBook post by DJ Shadow from Mar 06, 2015
“If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."”
“You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?”
“If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling”
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

Source : "A Pillar of Iron". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1965.

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