"The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary."

-- Charles McGrath

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“In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.”

Source : Mike Krzyzewski (2009). “The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team”, p.63, Hachette UK
“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”
“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each actionÂ (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”
“Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.”
“You reach peaks only to see there's another greater peak beyond it. Suddenly that one looks like it'd have a much better view. It's an endless cycle of going toward things that you think will provide you happiness. At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.”
“All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.”
“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.”
“But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?”

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