"All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state."

-- W. H. Auden

#Leadership Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Quality Quotes

“The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.”

Source : Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”
“American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.”
“A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.”
“Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.”
“I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.”
“The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.”
“When you're dealing with people in an industry that's all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go.”

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