"What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it."

-- Paul Rankin

#Hard Work Quotes #Passion Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“I could always make people laugh.”
“All lasting business is built on friendship.”
“The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.”

Source : Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.185, 谷月社
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

Source : "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.
“At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.”
“memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will ...”

Source : Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
“One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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