"When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward"

-- Carol Ann Tomlinson

#Skills Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Balance Quotes

“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
“A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.”

Source : John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?”
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”

Source : Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.189, Routledge
“If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.”
“Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.”
“I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on 'Dynasty,' it was just so cheesy. That's half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it's not so fun to have to say those lines.”

Source : "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.
“We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them”

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