"Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy."

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Source : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books

Jack Weatherford

#Enemy Quotes #Victory Quotes #Made Quotes

“Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!”

Source : Personal Letter, 1885.
“They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?”
“You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.”

Source : Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion
“I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.”
“All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.”
“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”
“When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.”

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