"I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play."

-- Jerry Rice

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Oakland Quotes

“I become a happier man each time I suffer”
“They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.”
“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
“I would like to get jobs doing other things that aren't necessarily always with my husband. I'd like to show range - and kiss another guy.”
“Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.”
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

Source : Will Self's rules for writers, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”
“There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.”

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