"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?"

-- Richard Bach

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“One should never create tension between one's footwear.”
“People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.”
“If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.”

Source : 1986 Coasting, ch.6.
“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”

Source : Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books
“I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.”
“I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.”
“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”

Source : "Chopin". Book by George Richard Marek, Arthur Maling and Maria Gordon-Smith, 1978.

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