"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions"

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Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

Ethel Merman

#Player Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Invention Quotes

“But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.”
“Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.”
“most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.”
“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”
“One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe”
“Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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