"Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Success Quotes #School Quotes #People Quotes

“I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.”
“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”
“The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.”
“No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."”

Source : Charles-James Fox (1815). “The Speeches ... in the House of Commons”, p.2
“Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!”
“It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!”
“It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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