"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

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Source : Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

Aldous Huxley

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Positive Quotes

“Surfing the web often comes at the cost of face-to-face time with friends and family.”
“The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.”
“But I think itâ€™s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkableâ€”to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environmentâ€”to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.”
“The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.”

Source : "Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, and Howard Charles Talk THE MUSKETEERS, Character Backstory, Favorite Action Sequences, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 21, 2014.
“Life is a dance... Enjoy every step.”
“The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratificationâ€”if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?”

Source : David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library
“If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.”
“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”

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