"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it"

-- Jules Renard

#Birthday Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Forty Quotes

“A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.”
“I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.”
“Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?”
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”

Source : The London Daily Telegraph, June 16, 1992.
“The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.”

Source : "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,
“You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.”
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”

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