"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

-- Marcel Proust

#Wisdom Quotes #Im Sorry Quotes #Educational Quotes

“I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.”
“Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.”
“When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!”
“Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.”
“After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
“No one ever got rich checking their email more often.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 27, 2013
“I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.”

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