"Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind"

-- Louis Pasteur

#Inspiration Quotes #Impact Quotes #Mind Quotes

“To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.”

Source : Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press
“My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.”
“Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

Source : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366
“People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.”

Source : "Reid Hoffman Tells Charlie Rose: "Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur."". techcrunch.com. March 5, 2009.
“At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.”
“The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win,”
“She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.59, Wendy Lamb Books

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