"While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful."

-- Conrad Black

#Powerful Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Men Quotes

“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.”
“Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.”
“Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.”
“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”

Source : Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.148, Hachette UK
“Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.”
“A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.”
“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.”

Source : "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
“Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.”

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