"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be."

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Source : John Betjeman (1994). “Letters: 1951 to 1984”

John Betjeman

#Thinking Quotes

“When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.”
“Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.”
“I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2010.
“Be with those who help your being.”
“There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.”
“Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ...”

Source : Susan Dunlap (1993). “Death and Taxes”, Dell Publishing Company
“In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.”
“To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.”

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