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Daphne du Maurier

"Sometimes itâ€™s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, â€˜Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,â€™ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, itâ€™s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. Itâ€™s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way weâ€™re going."

-- Daphne du Maurier

#Struggle Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.”
“Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.”
“I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.”
“The trick is to never lose hope!”
“Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.”
“Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.”

Source : Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.143, John Wiley & Sons
“You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.”

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