"Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Character Quotes #World Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”
“I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.”
“A good strategy focuses efforts on a target, and that focus can only be achieved by not diffusing energy in other directions - that is the meaning of Michael Porter's dictum of "choosing what not to do." At the same time, a good strategy chooses the right target to focus on, not wasting the focus of energy on a target that cannot be affected or that is unimportant - that is the meaning of Drucker's distinction between efficiency and effectiveness.”
“Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.”
“Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.”
“You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.”

Source : Song: Never Let it Die, Album: All You Can Do, 2014
“When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.”
“What is real is beyond all reach.”

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