Merle Miller quotes

Merle Miller quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.”
-- Merle Miller

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“You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.”
-- Merle Miller

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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”
“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”
“[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...”
“The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute. As long as this appears to be lacking, what is present can be demolished only by fools or criminals.”
“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”
“View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.”

Source : Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”
“Every burden prepares you for eternity.”
“Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.”

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