"As long as there are postmen, life will have zest."

-- William James

#Zest Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Long Quotes

“The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen”
“One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.”

Source : Interview with David K. Allison for the Smithsonian Institution, May 9, 1995.
“It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.”
“Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.”
“Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.”
“If not now then when, if not me then who?”
“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”
“It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.”

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