"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

-- Warren G. Bennis

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Leadership Quotes

“What I really don't like is oversimplification.”
“The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."”
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
“Happy endings come in different packages”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”
“The harder you work when nobodyâ€™s watching the less you bleed when itâ€™s time to perform.”
“Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin
“We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.”
“We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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