"Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness."

-- Donny Deutsch

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“My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.
“In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.”
“Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that.”
“Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.”
“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Source : Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.
“Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.”

Source : Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
“I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.”
“I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.”

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