"Nothing is achieved without toil."

-- Horace

“The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity...”
“As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.”

Source : "The Next Killer App: Work" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.
“Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”
“I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.”
“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”
“Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.”

Source : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.75
“If youâ€™re alive, you canâ€™t be bored in San Francisco. If youâ€™re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.”

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