Posts Related to Edgard Varese

• Helen Hayes – Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy

  Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. Helen Hayes

• Joe Theismann

  Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

• Warren Bennis – The most dangerous leadership

  The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Warren Bennis

• Barry Switzer

  Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

• Phil Gramm

  The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

• Joseph Conrad

  It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

• Mary Wortley Montagu

  Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.