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“The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?”

Sea Land Strive Muscles Horizon Strife Swimmer Adrift

Book:The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel

Source: The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel

“The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”

Long Eye Asks Challenges Leadership Lines Views Leader Accepting Perspective Bottom Managers Range His Eyes Horizon Status Quo Bottom Line Leadership Vs Management

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.”

“We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons”

Needs Generations Angry Horizon

Author:Nizar Qabbani

“Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.”

World England Horizon Discovering Discovering The World

Author:Stefan Zweig

“In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.”

Years Looks May Stills Bigs Answers Doubt Currents Be Good Settling No Doubt Horizon Bangs Newton Elude Good Questions Elude Us

Author:Daniel Dennett

“With creative people, truly new horizons open up.”

People Creative Horizon Creative People New Horizons

Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.”

Giving Years Children Long Reason Stars Chance Fronts Accepted Horizon Single Child

Author:Avery Brooks

“The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!”

May Long Industry Prove Solutions Financial Horizon Sole Reliance Inventiveness Financial Services Service Industry Prove Me Wrong

Author:John Bruton

“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”

Looks Earth Order Chance Strange Moon Familiar Evolve Horizon Curves

Author:Gene Cernan

“My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.”

Today Opportunity Saws Generations Tomorrow Circumstances Prosperity Grandmother Horizon My Grandmother

Author:Julian Castro

“As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.”

Want One Thing Intention Horizon Retiring

Author:Marla Gibbs

“Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.”

Humans Wells Suffering Creatures Consequence Responsible Fishes Oil Horizon Spills Oil Spill Changes Over Time Suffering The Consequences

Author:Sylvia Earle

“There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.”

Art Light Media Shining Entertainment Compromise Horizon Load

Book:Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography

Source: Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography

“However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.”

People Knows Doe Political Mistake Opinion Environment Lows Economics Opposites Horizon

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.”

People Done Artist Economy Possibility Built Designer Horizon Thinker Divergent

Author:John Maeda

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