"Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle."

-- George Saunders

#Struggle Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Hardship Quotes

“I love a challenge. It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah. That's what it feels like every single time.”
“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.”
“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”

Source : "The Rise And Fall of Ion Storm" by John Carmack, slashdot.org. January 2, 2002.
“With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books
“I just like to be in the now. And kind of reporting on what it is that I see, feel and that's really reflective of the times that I'm in, we're in and I think with the latest works, it's still evident that we're going through a lot of the same things.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com
“If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.”
“I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA
“Art means to dare - and to have been right.”

Source : W Magazine, October 10, 1980.

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