"Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it."

-- Carol S. Dweck

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“I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.”
“The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.”
“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”

Source : James Thurber (1994). “Ninety-two Stories”, Outlet
“I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.”
“The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.”
“In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.”

Source : Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.”

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