“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.” CountryWould BeThreeDifficultCitiesKnowingFourDemandMeetingsPreparedTricksExtrasAfternoonSenateTwelveFridayCouncilRealisedReactionariesJuliusLunchtimeFriday Afternoon Author:Ken Livingstone
“High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to see life and others afresh, as though through the eyes of a child, to learn how to tap into our intuition and visualization, as a powerful means of using our inner knowing to “make a difference.” It demands that we cease to seek refuge in what we know and constantly explore and learn from what we do not know. It demands that we live the questions rather than the answers.” KnowsMeanChildrenEyeDifferencesAbilityAnswersPowerfulKnowingIntegrityDemandIntuitionCeaseIntenseMaking A DifferenceRefugeVisualizationThrough The EyesAbility To SeePersonal IntegrityEyes Of A ChildThrough The Eyes Of A Child Author:Danah Zohar
“The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.” DoeStillsKnowingPlansCreationVictoryDemandDestructionCommandGrantedMentalitySneakGod's PlanHaughtyMuddleYiddish Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.” GivingMeanTodayNamesKnowingSacrificeDemandExtraordinaryOneselfEgoism Author:Andrei Tarkovsky