"Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill."

-- Ovid

#Skills Quotes #Luck Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summÃ¨d lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.”

Source : Robert Southwell, “Look Home”
“What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.”

Source : "German socialist philosophy".
“I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Trust in God, always take care of each other.”
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
“The expiatory church of La Sagrada FamÃlia is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.”
“There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.”

Source : "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.
“Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.”

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