"The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit."

-- Douglas Southall Freeman

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.”
“When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.152, Penguin
“Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.”
“One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.”
“Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.”
“When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane”
“I can never remember what I do even in the studio.”
“Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!”

Source : Friedrich Kellner (2017). “My Opposition”, p.452, Cambridge University Press

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