"Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure."

-- Robert Gottlieb

“I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.”
“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”
“Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.207, Crown Business
“People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'”
“That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet.”
“Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one”
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”

Source : "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.
“The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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