"You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist."

-- Joyce DiDonato

“Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best”
“I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.”
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.26, Penguin
“Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.”
“Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc
“It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.”
“One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.”
“Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.”

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