"That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up."

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Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.14, Vintage

Leonard Mlodinow

#Giving Up Quotes #Successful Quotes

“I can never sit still for five minutes.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.
“I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.”

Source : 1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.
“I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”

Source : "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone, dedication Page, 1960.
“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
“No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.”

Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.119, Routledge
“I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.”
“The fact is that there's hundreds of thousands of incredibly motivated, active political partisans working on the blogs. These people generate buzz, it generates local activism. These aren't the kind of people that pay attention a little to politics, turn it off and then do something else. They live and breathe politics. And anybody that wants to build a movement or a successful campaign needs people like the people who read blogs.”

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