"I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places."

-- Jonathan Evison

#Believe Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“I don't have proper places to run.”
“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”
“I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.”
“If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own”

Source : Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.
“Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.”
“For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.16, Doubleday
“Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.”
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”

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