"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter."

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Source : Edwin Paxton Hood (1851). “Self-education”, p.65

Edwin Paxton Hood

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Character Quotes

“Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?”

Source : "Jesse Schell: Xbox, PlayStation and the Innovator's Dilemma". Interview with Matthew Handrahan, www.gamesindustry.biz. August 5, 2013.
“My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't know a damn thing about style.”
“I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.”

Source : Interview, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.
“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”
“I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.”
“I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.”

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