"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

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Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

Max Beerbohm

#Work Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes

“One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.”
“Wherever there are birds, there is hope.”
“If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!”
“A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,”
“I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.”
“I did a lot of research on villains, and guys who start behaving nefariously didn't start out as bad people. My research indicates that all of these people were scorned and hurt by love. Darth Vader didn't start off as a bad guy. He was a good guy. Only when Natalie Portman betrayed him, did he go to the dark side.”
“And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'”
“I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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