"The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths."

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Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

Giuseppe Mazzini

#Germs Quotes #Quotations Quotes

“There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.”
“For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.”
“I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.”
“Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”
“Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.”
“True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.”
“But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.”

Source : Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons
“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies and I rather doubt that they would would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

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