"We in Europe have great capacities."

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George Papandreou

#Europe Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“In real life, we're not walking around waiting for something to happen. We live our lives, and then suddenly we fall in love with somebody, and it's a big mess because you have a wife already, and it's going to destroy your life. And, at the same time, it's beautiful. Often, in films, it's not like that.”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.”
“You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, â€˜What is it?â€™ In that moment art can be created.”
“My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.”
“I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.”
“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”

Source : Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage
“If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.”

Source : Karl Albrecht, Ron Zemke (1985). “Service America!: Doing Business in the New Economy”, Irwin Professional Pub
“On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.”

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