"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources."

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Source : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

Jan Egeland

#Attention Quotes #World Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.”
“People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.”
“Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.”
“The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.”
“Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.”
“As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.”
“Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.”
“Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.63, Green Dragon Books

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