"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

-- Aristotle

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
“The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.”
“Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.”
“To be that man, you've got to beat the man. Woooo!”
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.”

Source : Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.255
“Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.”
“Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.”

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