"Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically."

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Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.390, Penguin

Ken Follett

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes

“The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.
“I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.”
“I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.”
“Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.”

Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.173, Modern Library
“I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it”
“I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.”
“... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...”

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