"The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school."

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Eli Broad

#Summer Quotes #Dream Quotes #School Quotes

“I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

Source : "EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.
“I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.”
“Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”
“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.”
“In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.”

Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub
“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”
“It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.”

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