"Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life."

-- Philip Roth

#Morning Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Real Quotes

“Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan
“If you keep your eye on the profit, youâ€™re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.”
“There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.”
“I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.”
“I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.”
“Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.”
“Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.”

Source : Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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