"Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain."

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Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

William Ernest Henley

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“Without technique, it doesn't matter what your ideas are; you would not be able to do what you want. It's something that you always need to work on. It's also important to never forget the feeling for the music, the imagination.”
“Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.”
“one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.”
“Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.”
“Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.”

Source : Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.94, Cambridge University Press
“I think I become close to the people that I work with.”

Source : "Interview: ‘Gracepoint’ co-star Jessica Lucas on why she probably isn’t playing the killer". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 6, 2014.
“England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.”
“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.”

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