A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.
—Indian Proverb
Effective leaders delegate, but they do not delegate the one thing that will set the standards. They do it.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that it opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
—Max Planck (German Theoretical Physicist)
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
—Wilhelm Reich (Austrian Psychoanalyst)
If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.
—Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian Author)
Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a man may have, unless he exercises it fairly and justly his actions will return to plague him.
—Frank A. Vanderlip (American Banker)
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
—Tom Hopkins (American Sales Coach)
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,’You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
—Hafez (Persian Poet)
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
—Jonas Salk (American Virologist)
Before you know it, if you’re not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there’s nobody left to hate.
—William Wharton (American Novelist, Painter)
There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.
—Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)
I think you have to have a real point of view that’s your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it’s a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine’s point of view because it’s never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe it.
—Mary Ellen Mark (American Photojournalist)
We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don’t recognize it.
—Carmen Maria Machado (American Author, Essayist)
A panic is the stampede of our self-possession.
—Antoine de Rivarol (French Writer)