"I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research."

-- David Baldacci

#Hard Work Quotes #Character Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.”
“We share a culture focused on our clients.”
“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.”
“Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.”
“If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,”

Source : "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.
“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
“An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.”

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