"Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out."

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Randy Pausch

#Inspirational Quotes #Work Out Quotes #People Quotes

“Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2010). “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“I can't say, 'I eat whatever I want when I want,' but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.”
“He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.”
“Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance...It is man-made so the press can feed off it.”
“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”

Source : W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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