"A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night."

-- John Milton

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“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. Itâ€™s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”
“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin
“I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.”
“I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.
“If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country”
“Everything in life... has to have balance.”
“Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.”

Source : "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.
“I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.”

Source : "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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