"Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared."
— Barack Obama

""If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed." "
— Madonna

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. "
— Cherokee Proverb

"from Bill Clinton speech-
"People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...""
— Bill Clinton

"Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition."
— Thomas J. Peters

"One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have — we just need to learn to tap into and trust it."
— Donna Karan, Fashion designer

"Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making."
— Michael Eisner

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
— Woody Allen

"People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye."
— Peter Senge

"You may not have heard of it, but there has been a resounding stock market crash in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and it really looks as if the party is over; anyway, everyone is going home...The twighlight of the gods is drawing in; the international bankers are pulling the portieres over the sky, or rather they are rolling down their iron shutters. No more credit, the game is over, the world must go back to work."
— John Glassco

""After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy."
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— Doonsebury

"The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
— Milton Friedman