"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

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Source : "The Christian Leader", Vol. 37, Issue 7, February 17, 1934.

Horace Walpole

#Life Quotes #Learning Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.”
“If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.336
“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”

Source : "Showcase". Book by Roy Newquist, 1966.
“Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment”
“You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.50, Vintage
“I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?”
“In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.”
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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