"The enemy advances and you tremble. They've better numbers, you say. Better weapons. Better training. But I do not fear, and neither should you. For what they have in material, they lack in conviction and care. But not us. We have discipline. We have order. And most importantly, we have passion. We believe! So maintain vigilance. Conserve your ammo. Ensure a proper line of sight. And above all else, men, do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

-- Israel Putnam

#Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond”
“On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
“Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources”

Source : "Eco-overdraft sends earth into the red" by Paul Sussman, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2006.
“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
“Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.”
“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

Source : "Zadie Smith's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.”
“It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadnâ€™t hit you, the slumlord you hadnâ€™t offended, the malaria you hadnâ€™t caught.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.13, Portobello Books

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