"To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize."

-- Daniel Yergin

#Real Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.”
“...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.”
“Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.”
“I still hope to kill Fischer”
“... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.”
“I am not mean at all, I am not tough at all.”
“[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.”
“No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?”

Source : Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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