"Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision."

-- David McCullough

#Self Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.”
“Life - give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.”

Source : William Ernest Henley (1893). “London Voluntaries ; The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses”, London : D. Nutt
“Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.”
“The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.”
“It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.”
“There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.”
“I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.”
“There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.”

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