"There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you."

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Source : Charles William Eliot (1924). “Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect”, p.91, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Charles William Eliot

#Leadership Quotes #Successful Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.”
“And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.”
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
“I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.”
“The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.”
“If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.”

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