"Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things."

-- Pliny the Younger

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“Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.”
“I keep my sisters on speed dial.”
“We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.”
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”

Source : "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.
“Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.”

Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.83, Harvard Business Press
“Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.”
“I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.”
“Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.”

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