“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
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French writer and aviator 1900–1944Related quotes
“Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down.”
Debussy in a letter to his pupil Raoul Bardac (1906)
Context: Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
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“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
Responding to the opposition of Communist Party of India (Marxist) towards the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement, as quoted in "‘Anguished’ PM to Left: If you want to withdraw, so be it" http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070811/asp/frontpage/story_8179523.asp, The Telegraph (India) (11 August 2007)
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