"In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works."

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Source : "Smart failure for a fast-changing world". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

Eddie Obeng

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Our World Quotes

“Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.”

Source : Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics
“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.”
“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.”

Source : "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.
“There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.”

Source : The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.
“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.”
“Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.”
“The man whose little sermon is â€˜repentâ€™ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a manâ€”â€˜off with his head!â€™ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven”
“I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.”

Source : "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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