"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."

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Source : Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

Warren G. Bennis

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“Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.”
“Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!”
“It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.”
“The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.”
“Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.”
“Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.”
“If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.”

Source : Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.14, A&C Black
“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”

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