Quotes
Authors
Salvador de Madariaga
"Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning." --
Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”
Salvador de Madariaga
#Memories Quotes
#Self Quotes
#Giving Quotes
“One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.”
Source : Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons
“For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.”
“Fiction is the microscope of truth.”
“The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!”
“Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’”
“What good is safety if you're dead inside?”
“Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.”
Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam
“What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.”
