"As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. Itâ€™s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is â€œdescended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.â€ Willingness is the single most important test."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Giving Up Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.”

Source : Tom Coughlin, David Fisher (2013). “Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation”, p.16, Penguin
“Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.”
“I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.”
“Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions”
“There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.97, New York Review of Books
“I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.”
“I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.”

You may also like:

Arthur C. Clarke
Film writer
Asa Butterfield
Actor
Brandon Sanderson
Writer
Hailee Steinfeld
Film actress
Harrison Ford
Film actor
Isaac Asimov
Author
Terry Pratchett
Author
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Gavin Hood
Filmmaker