"Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests."

-- John W. Gardner

#Special Quotes #Unseen Quotes #Politics Quotes

“Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.”
“He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.”
“I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.”

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“I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.”
“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”
“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”
“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”
“I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.”

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