"Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals."

-- Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

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“Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.”
“Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.”
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
“If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.”

Source : "Thirty Tales & Sketches".
“This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.”
“Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.”

Source : "Mr. Darman's Sermon". The New York Times, July 29, 1989.
“As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.”
“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.”

Source : Interview with Maxime Lachaud, www.zeena.eu. September 2011.

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