"I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders."

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Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”

Amerigo Vespucci

#Travel Quotes #Preparation Quotes #World Quotes

“There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.”
“I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.”
“A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.”
“People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.”

Source : "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.
“There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if you ask him whether it's good, he'll say something sharp. But that's not the point of movies: to love cinema is to love life, to really look at this window on the universe. It's incompatible with note-taking!”
“How can you help the human race progress?”
“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287”
“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.”

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