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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
habit reconcile
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change Charles Caleb Colton
habit circumstances
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. Bryan Adams
habit knowing life lived
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. Ellen Gilchrist
habit could-have-been has-beens
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton
habit duty
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire
habit easier thistles
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them. Austin O'Malley
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits. Bertrand Piccard
habitat pageant evolve
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. Diane Ackerman
habit
To make headway, improve your head. B. C. Forbes
latter matter matters says speech three
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
latter period steadily tendency
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. Henry Charles Carey
latter marked piece taking
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
latter mitchell split thursday tough visited
I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.
latter
He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week. Bill Callahan
latter former determine
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. Martin Heidegger
latter life running viable
The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. Cory Booker
latter estates careful
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. Hosea Ballou
latter distasteful
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Rex Stout