#din

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#because #become #experience #human #human experience

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#altogether #argue #certain #experience #fundamentalism

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #building #buys #creates #equal

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#around #changed #clubs #coffee #finish

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#age #books #changed #children #doing

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#countries #deal #developed #developed countries #global