"Invest your life in what you love."

--

Jessica Jackley

“Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
“Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.”

Source : "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
“I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!”
“I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.”
“It was eleven more than neccessary.”
“I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi... Is there some kind of community service I can do?”
“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
“Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.”

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