"The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated."

-- Nancy Duarte

#Differences Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes

“Bach, of course, was my first love. He still is. I mean, he's the man of my life, that's for sure. And when I say that there's been a re-evaluation, look, to be perfectly honest, I think I have a re-evaluation of my relationship with Bach probably every day, and that will never stop. And that's probably why I still get up in the morning and I do this.”
“Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin
“I'm normally a burger and chips girl - such a cheap date.”
“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

Source : "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
“I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.”
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.”
“I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.”
“It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.”

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