"What you will do matters. All you need is to do it."

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Source : Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

Judy Grahn

#Motivation Quotes #Needs Quotes #Matter Quotes

“My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it sort of has the same relationship to Islam that Christianity has to Judaism, and it's a kind of a universalist creed and missionaries aren't paid. You're essentially expected to go out and find a job and do your own thing, and in your spare time spread the faith, and so that was the driving force of us going overseas.”
“To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.”
“There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.”
“Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.”
“The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you”
“Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.”
“The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.”

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