Eden Clovis

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Customer: I'm looking for a book for my son. He's six.
Bookseller: How about this one - it's about-
Customer: Yeah, whatever, I'll take it.”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln