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“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
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“Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.”
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“History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.”
Source : Allan Nevins (1962). “The Gateway to History”
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“The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.”
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“Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
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“Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.”
Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.126, Hachette UK
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“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”
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“Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.”
