"Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Men Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.”
“Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.”
“Finally I want to say this: if you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, Iâ€™m standing here to tell you: you are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.”

Source : Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.”
“Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.”

Source : "Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America". "This American Moment" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 15, 2008.
“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”
“cleverness is a disease.”
“My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.”

Source : "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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