"My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Fitness Quotes #Stress Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime”
“When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.”
“I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.”
“It was good and nothing good is ever lost.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.347, St. Martin's Press
“Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.”
“We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.”

Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
“To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”

Source : Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.42, Routledge
“There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.”

Source : Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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