"People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck. ... The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked."

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Source : Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.

Steve Blank

#Graduation Quotes #Running Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.”
“Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.”
“What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”
“The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.”

Source : "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.
“One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.”

Source : Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.202
“Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.”
“It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.”
“No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too”, p.228, W. W. Norton & Company

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