"Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying."

“[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”

“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.347, Penguin

“In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.”

“The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players”

“There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.”

“Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.”