"I see my goals as personal and I always have. That's just been how I've worked."

-- Michael Phelps

“Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.”

Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.
“You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.”
“The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.”
“Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.”
“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. Itâ€™s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.”

Source : Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books
“It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there.”
“And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?”

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