"I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over."

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”
“The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.”

Source : Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, p.174, Harvard Business Press
“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

Source : "Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice". Book by Napoleon Hill, p. 104, 1991.
“To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for. The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in tragedy.”
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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