"Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive."

-- Robert Greene

#Persistence Quotes #Bored Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.”

Source : "Famed Colombian Artist Fernando Botero Turns 80". www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2012.
“Thereâ€™s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.”
“The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.”

Source : "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.
“Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.”
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.”
“In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.”
“There was no miracle that night...”
“I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.”

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