"If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly."

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Source : Sean Swarner (2007). “Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

#Goal Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Might Quotes

“There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.”
“Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.”
“Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.”
“Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.”
“Garner knowledge, by any means possible”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.62, Pan Macmillan
“That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.51, Open Road Media
“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”
“You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.”

Source : "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" (song) (1949)

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