"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."

-- Thomas Carlyle

#Motivational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Work Quotes

“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”
“What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?”

Source : Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House
“I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.”

Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan
“I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.”
“Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.”
“I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.”
“The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.”

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