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Vladimir Nabokov: Writing
Embed from Getty Images “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” —Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (1899-1977).
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Jane Austen: Unintelligible
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ” —Jane Austen.
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Mother Teresa: Beautiful, pure, immaculate
“Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.” — Blessed Mother Teresa.
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Maximilian Kolbe: Blessed Virgin
“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.” –Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
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Nikita Khrushchev: Life
“But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. ” —Nikita Khrushchev.
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AA Milne: Rivers
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -AA Milne author (1882-1956).
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Alex Ferguson: Games to play
“As long as there are games to play, it is not over.” ~Alex Ferguson. Embed from Getty Images
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Samuel Johnson: Writing
“The greatest part of a writer’s time in spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ~Samuel Johnson.
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Christian Dior: Shoes
“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.” ~Christian Dior.
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Priyanka Chopra: Dil Yeh Ziddi Hai
“My best learnings: Boxing is hard, the punches hurt like crazy. Push me to my limit and I’ll cross it. After all, Dil Yeh Ziddi Hai. Never give up — winners never quit and quitters never win. Trust yourself to deliver on your dreams. Smile, laugh, live… What have you got…
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Ellen Terry: Being eccentric
“There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. ” —Ellen Terry.
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Oscar Wilde: Men and women
“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” ~Oscar Wilde.
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Otto von Bismarck: Sausages and laws
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. ” —Otto von Bismarck.
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Lisa Ray: Beauty
“Beauty is defined through the effect it has on me. It may make me want to stop, gaze, sketch, touch, photograph, absorb or increase my pulse.” ~Lisa Ray.
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Marjane Satrapi: Americans
I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face… Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. —Marjane Satrapi.
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Tom Peters: Shit communicators
“Some of you have minds that move very fast. Hurrah. BUT: Typically, you are shit communicators. WORK ON IT.” ~Tom Peters.
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Willy Brandt: Courage
“It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it. ” Willy Brandt
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Agatha Christie: Justice first, mercy second
“Too much mercy…often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.” ~Agatha Christie.
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Shekhar Kapur: Patience and waiting
“Lessons of life: Patience and waiting are not the same thing. Patience is not to be over anxious about result of activity. Waiting is inactivity.” ~Shekhar Kapur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Burning books
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Helmuth von Moltke: Considerations and risks
“First weigh the considerations , then take the risks.” ~Helmuth von Moltke.
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Maru-ki-Var: Egoism
“Where egoism exists, Thou are not experienced. Where thou art, is not egoism.” ~Maru-ki-Var.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ” —Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Anonymous: Lose teeth, keep head
“When I was a fighter, I kept my head. I lost some teeth, but I kept my head.” —Anonymous.
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Priyanka Chopra: Guarding, hitting and moving
“But it’s not all physical, there’s a mental aspect too. The skill is to learn both, in the ring and in life… when you need to guard yourself; looking for the opportunity to strike and to keep moving, which allows you not only to keep your opponent on their toes but also gives you time…
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Bill Watterson: Self-discovery
“I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.” —Bill Watterson.
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Allen Klein: Volunteerism
“Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.” —Allen Klein. Embed from Getty Images
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Jaron Lanier: Distributed volunteer labor
“Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.” ~Jaron Lanier. Embed from Getty Images
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Josh Billings: Happiness
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ” —Josh Billings.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Incapable
“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Talmud: Vengeance
“Who takes vengeance or bears a grudge acts like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.” ~Talmud, Nedarim 9.4.
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Stephen King: Caged
“When you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.” ~Stephen King.
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Truman Capote: Condiment
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ” —Truman Capote.
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Joyce Meyer: Church volunteerism
“It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!” ~Joyce Meyer.
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Peter Drucker: Volunteerism
“Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” ~Peter Drucker.
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Martin Amis: Bullets
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.” —Martin Amis, novelist (b. 1949).
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Edgar R. Fiedler: Economists and answers
“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. ” —Edgar R. Fiedler.
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Ray Bradbury: Television
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012).
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Bertrand Russell: Kind of treachery
“Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.” ~Bertrand Russell. Embed from Getty Images
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Erich Fromm: Faith
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ” ~Erich Fromm.
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Lao Tzu: Ego
“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle… Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the centre, watching. And then forget that you are there.” ~Lao Tzu.
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Tomas Halik: Believers and unbelievers
“Believers and unbelievers are not two clearly separate groups like two soccer teams. The playing field for the contest between belief and unbelief is within each individual human heart and human mind.” ~Tomas Halik.
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Edith Head: Dress sense
“Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.” ~Edith Head. Embed from Getty Images
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Tomas Halik: Faith
“Let it be said over and over again; faith is not a question of problems but of mystery. …We must never abandon the path of seeking and asking. A problem can be solved once forever. A Mystery—unlike problems—cannot be overcome. A Mystery invites us to try and understand it again, to go deeper and deeper.”…
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Mahatma Gandhi: Real 'Swaraj'
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51346898 “The Real ‘Swaraj’ will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when abused.” ~Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Ernest Hello: Separated souls
“When they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.” ~Ernest Hello.
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Society and Truth
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Priyanka Chopra: Rest…
“…rest if you must, but don’t you ever quit!” ~Priyanka Chopra in her second installment of “Lessons From The Ring” learned while enacting the title role “Mary Kom”. Embed from Getty Images
