"If you want to succeed, limit yourself."

-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Want Quotes #Limits Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.181, Vintage
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.”
“Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”
“I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.”
“The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.”
“And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.”
“Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.”
“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”

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