"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."

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Samuel Eliot Morison

#Mind Quotes #Synthesis Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.245, Bantam
“Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task”
“Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.”
“Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.”
“I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.”
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
“I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things.”

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