Enters Quote by Joel C. Rosenberg

I think the world at large is a Jaden Smith fanatic.

— Brian Quinn

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

— Orrin Woodward

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which…

— David James Duncan

“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?…

— Sinclair Lewis

“In any case, psychological type has built a private world around itself, an intimate universe that has no need for external validation . .…

— Annie Murphy Paul

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

— David Ogilvy

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

— Alain de Botton

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going…

— Hannah Simone

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

— Desmond Tutu

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

— Anonymous

The world is run by those who show up.

— Robert Johnson