"When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world."

-- Daphne du Maurier

“A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.”
“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

Source : "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.
“I know I'm the guy others will lean on.”
“It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.”
“I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.”
“That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.”
“If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.”
“With faint praises one another damn.”

Source : The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32

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