"This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane."

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Source : Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

Thomas Keller

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“you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”

Source : FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 16, 2014
“Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.”

Source : Michael Klare (2007). “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum”, p.7, Macmillan
“It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.33, e-artnow
“Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.”
“When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether.”

Source : Carol Tavris (1984). “Anger, the misunderstood emotion”, Touchstone
“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.
“I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.”

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