"When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing."

-- Ralph J. Cordiner

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Office Quotes

“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.”
“I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.”
“Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?”
“Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.”
“Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.”

Source : "Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.
“True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.”
“This lady is not for turning.”
“I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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