Egotistical Leader Quotes & Sayings

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is - an intense form of thought. — Don DeLillo

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty. — Debasish Mridha

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances. — Gunter Pauli

Don't let what you never experienced taint your understanding of what could be. — Lisa Anderson

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. — Terry Pratchett

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof. — Neal A. Maxwell

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing. — Will Rogers

One's my favorite number. The word won being the past tense of win, and we can all say at the end of the day that we won once again, can't we? Some days making it to the end of the day is quite a victory. — Jennifer Brown

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. (p. 12) — James Gurney

Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds. — Randall Robinson

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career. — Shelley Duvall

Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous. — J.C. Ryle

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice. — Mario Bunge

There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual. — Ralph W. Gerard