"When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership."

-- Shirley Franklin

#Executives Quotes #My Friends Quotes

“The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.”

Source : James Galvin (2014). “The Meadow”, p.4, Holt Paperbacks
“Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.”
“I was bullied by my siblings and cousins, so make-believe was a way in which I could be in charge. When I was like 10 and my sister was about five, I convinced her that she was going to jail because she used a bad word. The doorbell happened to ring, and I told her it was the police. I made her pack her bags. She was crying, and then I said to her, "I forgive you, and I'm gonna tell the cop to go away." Then, of course, she loved me. It was terrible - she still remembers it. I had a sordid sense of humor.”
“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
“Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 23, 2012
“high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.”
“The highest peace is the peace between opposites.”
“Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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