"Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.”
“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
“There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer.”
“I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.”
“it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
“There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.”

Source : Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications
“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.”
“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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