Obscuring Essence Quotes & Sayings

It is almost always a mistake for heads of state to undertake the details of a negotiation. They are then obliged to master specifics normally handled by their foreign offices and are deflected onto subjects more appropriate to their subordinates, while being kept from issues only heads of state can resolve. Since no one without a well-developed ego reaches the highest office, compromise is difficult and deadlocks are dangerous. With the domestic positions of the interlocutors so often dependent on at least the semblance of success, negotiations more often concentrate on obscuring differences than they do on dealing with the essence of a problem. — Henry Kissinger

The inner is foundation of the outer
The still is master of the restless
The Sage travels all day
yet never leaves his inner treasure — Lao-Tzu

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it. — Alison Eastwood

I'm sorry Brooke. I didn't know that when I thought I was eating a fried chicken sandwich, I was really eating bigotry and oppression. — Gisele Walko