"There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no."

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Source : FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Dec 15, 2013

Martin Scorsese

#Fighting Quotes #Two Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett (1994). “The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature”, p.183, Taylor & Francis
“There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.”
“It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.”
“There's no experience like on-the-job training.”
“When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.”
“A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”

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