"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."

-- Richard Cobden

#Character Quotes #Luck Quotes #Chance Quotes

“I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.”
“I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.33
“Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.”
“If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.”

Source : Interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.
“Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.”
“Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.”
“Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'”
“When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.”

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