Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Novelist

France

1900 - 1944

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery