"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."

-- Alasdair Gray

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #Leader Quotes

“And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.”
“I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.”
“I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.”
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
“Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.”
“I can sell anything that I totally believe in but Iâ€™m a horrible salesman of something I donâ€™t believe in”
“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”

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