"I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started."

-- Sanjeev Bhaskar

#Summer Quotes #Paper Quotes #Milk Quotes

“A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.”
“If itâ€™s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, itâ€™s going to shine. Itâ€™s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.”
“The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.”

Source : "In-laws and Outlaws". Book by C. Northcote Parkinson, 1962.
“There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.”

Source : "Carrie Newcomer: On spirituality, music and a playlist". Interview with Hannah Heinzekehr, themennonite.org. August 18, 2017.
“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”
“One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.”
“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”

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