"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."

-- Thomas E. Mann

#Leadership Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus.]”

Source : "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
“The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.”
“I think the story only really comes alive on the set.”
“I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.”
“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.”
“If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.”
“What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!”
“I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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