"Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer."

-- Richard Bach

#Team Quotes #Skills Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.”

Source : "Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA". www.strike-the-root.com. March 01, 2004.
“He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret”
“Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.”

Source : "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
“It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.”
“During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.”
“I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.”
“The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.”
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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