Cendekia Leadership Quotes & Sayings

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death — Joseph Conrad

Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors. — Emma Goldman

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else. — Maya Angelou

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person. — Madeleine L'Engle

I think that translating is the most profound, most intimate way of reading. A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, two texts, two writers. It entails a doubling, a renewal ... It was a way of getting close to different languages, of feeling connected to writers very distant from me in space and time. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it. — Randy Pausch

If anyone insists on his own goodness and despises others . . . let him look into himself when this petition confronts him. He will find he is no better than others and that in the presence of God everyone must duck his head and come into the joy of forgiveness only through the low door of humility. — Timothy Keller

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. — John Dos Passos

I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious. — Alfred Hitchcock

Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse. — Jennifer Worth

No matter how the official narrative of this turns out," it seemed to Heidi, "these are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled utterances, bad dreamers who sleep in public and scream in their sleep. — Thomas Pynchon