"We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness."

-- Clarence Benjamin Jones

#Leadership Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.”
“Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.”
“Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.”
“I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, "...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.”
“Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.”
“The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.”
“I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it,”

Source : "Alexa Chung on Body Image: 'Just Because I Exist in this Shape Doesn't Mean I'm Advocating It'". Interview with Hayley Phelan, fashionista.com. October 12, 2012.
“The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when youre being very real, when youre not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and whats morally right or ethically right.”

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