"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."

-- William Graham Sumner

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.”
“You don't write a book to show off.”
“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.”
“You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.”
“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? Itâ€™s because he doesnâ€™t care! Heâ€™s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery”
“So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.”

Source : Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr
“The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.”
“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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