"It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jill Douglas

#Hard Work Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.”
“You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .”
“Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.”
“Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory.”

Source : "Network Memory". Trends in Neuroscience, Vol. 20, Issue 10, October 1997.
“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”
“And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.”

Source : G. M. Trevelyan (2016). “History and the Reader”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
“Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.”
“Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.”

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