"Having a bunch of medals and badges doesnâ€™t necessarily mean youâ€™ve achieved anything, youâ€™ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do."

-- Paula Broadwell

#Mean Quotes #Differences Quotes #Making A Difference Quotes

“People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.”
“Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”
“Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.”
“Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.”

Source : Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.111, Penguin
“One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.”
“Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.”
“Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.”
“Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.”

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