"Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego."

-- Tom Chappell

#Religious Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.”
“I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.”

Source : "More Cries, More Whispers" by Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1999.
“Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]”
“I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.”
“When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.”
“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”
“Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.”

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