"Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight."

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Source : "Leadership to the Rescue" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

Nancy Lublin

#Writing Quotes #Type Quotes #Birkenstocks Quotes

“Taking risks gives me energy.”
“Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.”
“The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.”
“Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.”

Source : "The man who got it right". The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 13, p. 72, August 15, 2013.
“If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.”
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
“History is an accumulation of error.”
“I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.”

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