"Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Jobs Quotes #Mean Quotes #Attention Quotes

“If you want to change something, you have to use new ways.”
“Iâ€™ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting directorâ€™s door youâ€™ve still got to do your homework: youâ€™ve still got to work hard.”
“Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.”
“It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.”
“I am not born to just become an actor”
“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”
“[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.”

Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.
“All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.”

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