"By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.Â You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you."

-- Elissa Schappell

#Opportunity Quotes #Investing Quotes #Change Yourself Quotes

“I am providing a service that many people obviously value.”
“I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.”
“When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

Source : "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.
“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”
“Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.”
“When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.”
“When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.”
“Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.”

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