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Quotes by Croatian Authors

"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

"I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."

"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."

"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."

"I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start."

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."

"The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'."

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."

"It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system."

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

"If you are born to lead, be a leader!"

"Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense."

"Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon."

"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."

"Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime."

"Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature."

"Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast."
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