"What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree."

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Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Jagged Orbit”, p.18, Open Road Media

John Brunner

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
“...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.”
“I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.”
“People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.”
“Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.”
“I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.”

Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 142), 1990.
“Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.”

Source : Justin Menkes (2013). “Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others”, p.5, Harvard Business Press
“Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said”

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