"The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal."

-- Susan Cain

#Party Quotes #Animal Quotes #Rushing Quotes

“If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.”
“Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.”
“When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me”
“The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.”
“I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.”
“I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.”
“The only limit to success is your own imagination.”
“I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, donâ€™t accept your limitations, jump before youâ€™re pushed, leap before you look.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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