Andrew Young
Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
It was only with her help that I did everything. The tragedy was that after 40 years of marriage she died of cancer. I say that if Martin and I had not married the little country girls we married from Alabama, you never would have heard our names.
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Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1996
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the harder part is the living in relationship, the living it out, the consistently trying to do what I call deep listening, listening to the needs around me, listening to what I'm — where we're being nudged and drawn, listening to people's stories, listening to the murmurs inside of me.
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Krista Tippett, On Being with Krista Tippett, 1 October 2020
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.