"Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in."

-- Mark Vonnegut

#Spiritual Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.”
“It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.”
“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfÃ¼hlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.95, Penguin
“Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.”
“Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2010). “Boys Don't Cry”, p.233, Random House
“He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.”
“The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.”
“IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.”

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