"I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity."

-- Veronica Roth

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Character Quotes

“In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.”
“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.”
“I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.”
“The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda (p.240), 1977.
“It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press
“You should make great things, not promising great things.”
“Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.”
“If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”

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