"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."

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Source : "Wagoner's words show how far we've come" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Friday Quotes #Administration Quotes #Steps Quotes

“If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.”
“More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.”
“No more was seen the human form divine.”
“if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.”
“I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.”
“I think you need to be a little in loveâ€”not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helpsâ€”but to be in love with the reality of your own life.”
“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.172, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Take more time, cover less ground.”

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