"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it."

-- Leo Rosten

#Writing Quotes #Helping Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.”
“I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.”
“All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.”
“...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.”
“And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”
“When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.”

Source : "Marshawn Lynch talks to reporters". Meeting with reporters, www.espn.com. January 3, 2014.
“The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.”
“The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.”

Source : "Arab Leaders Urge Peace, Israel Refuses". imemc.org. March 30, 2007.

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