"When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. ~ The Fool to Fritz in Assassin's Apprentice"

-- Robin Hobb

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“One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves." I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.”
“It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.”
“Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.”
“Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.”
“Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.”
“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.”

Source : "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.
“Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence these came from Kansas, not Kenya.”
“Love, peace and soul.”

Source : "Remembering 'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. February 1, 2012.

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