"I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable."

-- Patti Davis

#Careers Quotes #People Quotes #Vision Quotes

“By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”
“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”
“We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”

Source : "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.
“Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.”
“Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.”
“As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We canâ€™t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But itâ€™s there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.”

Source : Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.”

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