"I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Roots Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Bricks Quotes

“Players will never do more than you demand.”
“LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.89, Yearling
“It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.”
“I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.”

Source : Jeremy Paxman (2002). “The political animal: an anatomy”
“Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.”
“People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.”
“The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitÃ¦ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.”
“There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?”

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