"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."

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Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”

Ivan Turgenev

#Motivational Quotes #Business Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.”
“The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.”
“I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.”
“In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.”
“The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.”

Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.269, BoD – Books on Demand
“Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.”
“In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.”
“When itâ€™s all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I donâ€™t want to look back, however many years from now, and say, â€˜I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.â€™ I want to, when itâ€™s all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, â€˜I did everything I could do â€” good or bad.â€™”

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