"In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn."

-- Robert Greene

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“Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.”
“I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
“The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.”
“Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.”
“My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.”
“It is a game you have to play. You have to tour your ***** off. It's just always "where am I now" versus "where could I be?" It's constant competition with yourself. But I'm up for it.”
“Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.”

Source : Source: www.thegeekgirlproject.com
“It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.”

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