"Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable."

-- John Hospers

#People Quotes #Personality Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Source : Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2
“By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.”
“You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.”
“You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”
“Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.”
“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”
“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”

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