"As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people."

-- Steven Pacey

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”
“I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.”
“We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.”
“I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.”
“Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked”

Source : Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
“My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.”
“It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.”
“You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.”

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