"He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep."

-- John Keats

#Thinking Quotes #Indolence Quotes #Awake Quotes

“I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.”

Source : "Top 5 Girl Power Role Models of 2015" By Lauren Galley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2015.
“I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat with David Greenberg, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.”

Source : "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.
“In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.”
“Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.”
“Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.”
“I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'”
“I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.”

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