"Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence."

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Walter J. Phillips

#Persistence Quotes #Concentration Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“Survival often feels like an indignity.”
“I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.”

Source : "Petraeus Tells White House There's Much Work to be Done" By Justin Fishel, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2010.
“I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.”

Source : Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press
“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.”
“You know, some of the portfolios we might consider buying are portfolios which would do especially well if we have an economy-wide, or I mean, a global climate change that impacts us very negatively there are some companies that will do well, and so it might make sense to hold some of those in your portfolio.”
“When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.”

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