"Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Kings Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.”
“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.”
“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”
“School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians”
“Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Nov 10, 2016
“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.”
“Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.”
“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”

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