#ours

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' ↗

— Lao Tzu

#did #good #good leader #great #leader

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. ↗

— Bono

#africa #continent #disease #extreme #extreme poverty

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. ↗

— Bono

#colours #emotional #feelings #occupy #original

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#find #growth #little #lucky #mad

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #back #budget #changing #different

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#find #funny #hippie #learn #lot

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#becomes #bit #car #cars #fun

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#cardio #could #day #feel #hurt

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#countries #followed #like #loads #nice