"If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing."

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Source : George Allen (2010). “What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports”, p.45, Regnery Publishing

George Allen

#Acceptance Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Pay Quotes

“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami
“Iâ€™ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. Thereâ€™s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.”
“The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.”
“He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.”

Source : 'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2
“How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.”
“I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.”

Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”

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