"The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life."

-- Gustav Nossal

#Leadership Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.”
“The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.”
“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.”
“Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.”
“And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.”
“I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.”

Source : "Sincerely Yours, John Cusack". Interview with Steven Goldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1990.
“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”

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