"Attention is the currency of leadership."

“My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.”

Source : "‘Other People’s Rejection Letters’: 8 Of The Craziest Rejection Letters" by Bill Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

“I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.”

“For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?”

“I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.”

“I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.”

“I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.”

“American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.”

“Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.392, The New Press