"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

-- George Washington Carver

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“Leadership is based on complex phenomena.”

Source : "What Top Scholars Say About Leadership". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. May 10, 2010.
“It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .”

Source : "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.
“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”
“I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'”
“It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.”
“I was re-experiencing these things that happened a long time ago, and I'm trying to relive it now, and I'm bringing all of my current motivations and personality into that which were not there at the time. It's hard to remember exactly who I was when I was ten, fifteen.”
“Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.”

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