"Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly."

-- William Wickenden

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.”
“Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.”
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
“If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.”
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
“Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.”

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