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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.
historical details teach
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. Marissa Moss
historical history original people period stoke tendency
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources. Thomas Mallon
historical hold knew lives parents teachers truth
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. Tom Hulce
historical records kind
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. Brian Eno
historical revolution fantasy
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. David Mitchell
historical excess world
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. David Korten
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
historical history images people
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
rich poor exploits
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. David Brooks
rich become-rich
I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it. Jason Aldean
rich poor my-own
I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own. Charles Spurgeon
rich ifs
If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we? Cheryl Richardson
rich-or-poor self choices
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out. Cheryl Strayed
rich-or-poor naked attributes
Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. Eckhart Tolle
rich wanted
More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great. Bruce Springsteen
rich poor forbearance
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich. C. L. R. James
rich fame horrible
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable. Bruno Tonioli