"At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself."

-- Benny Carter

#Talking Quotes #Age Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.”
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2007). “The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight”, p.387, Macmillan
“None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.”
“My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.”

Source : "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
“The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.”

Source : Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
“The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.”

Source : The Scouter Magazine, January 1912.
“Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.”

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