"Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it."

-- Maeve Binchy

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“All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.”
“The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.”

Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.”
“Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.”
“Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.”

Source : "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.
“Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.”

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