"Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein."

-- Guy Finley

#Mirrors Quotes #Action Quotes #Blame Quotes

“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
“It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.”
“I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.”
“Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!”
“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics and bring me to the Royal Academy in London with very few financial resources and no connections. She didn't know anybody in England, but she found a way. Her love for her daughters and seeing what they could be, motivated her and gave her the chutzpah, the courage, to break down barriers. When you have the motivation of love, you will find the way.”
“The modern version of Buridan's ***** [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

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