"Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter."

-- Gay Talese

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Details Quotes

“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”
“I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.”
“The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.”
“The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.”
“I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.”
“The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.”
“By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.”

Source : Edwin Markham (1900). “The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author”
“I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read.”

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