Eric

“What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“Even the commissioner of the Department of Labor, Andrew McBride, who had previously seemed reluctant to intervene, now beat the drum of change. He made a personal visit to the Orange studio and asked why the Drinkers’ safety recommendations had not been put into effect; he was informed that the firm “did not agree with them all, many of them had already been followed, and some were impractical.”32”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“ALWAYS Facing you I am not jealous. Come with a man at your back, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your bosom and your feet, come like a river filled with drowned men that meets the furious sea, the eternal foam, the weather. Bring them all where I wait for you: we shall always be alone, we shall always be, you and I, alone upon the earth to begin life.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

“Not that everyone will become a leader. Sadly, most managers and even CEOs become bosses, not leaders. They wield power instead of transforming themselves, their workers, and their organization.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success