"Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops."

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Source : Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

Althea Gibson

#Fields Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”

Source : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
“Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.423
“Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.”
“Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.”
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.”
“I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.”
“He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.”
“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day...”

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