"Swifter, higher, stronger."

-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Work Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”
“I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.”
“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books
“All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.”
“Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.”
“Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.”

Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.113, Wesleyan University Press
“In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.”
“I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.”

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