"Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful."

-- Dee Dee Myers

#Powerful Quotes #Successful Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...”
“To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.”

Source : Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood (2010). “Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company
“The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch.”
“Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.”
“Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.”
“The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time”
“One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.”
“Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others...”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.341, Random House Books for Young Readers

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