"These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours."

-- Cesar Chavez

#Leadership Quotes #Moving Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.”

Source : "If Comedy Central’s ‘Idiotsitter’ is Half as Funny As Talking to Its Creators, It Could Be the Funniest Show on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2016.
“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”
“Always try the problem that matters most to you.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”
“Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.”
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
“I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.”

Source : Good Reads interview, www.goodreads.com. October, 2009.
“Don't make excuses! Make changes!”

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