"Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with."

-- Michael Flutie

#Thinking Quotes #Natural Talent Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.”
“Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.”
“Thatâ€™s not a father. Thatâ€™s a sperm donor. Forget him. Heâ€™s a mess. Concentrate on me. Iâ€™m terrific. (Linc Blaise)”
“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.”
“Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores”
“I just wish I could understand my father.”
“The compulsion of fate is bitter.”

Source : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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