"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

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Source : Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

Booker T. Washington

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Success Quotes

“For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!”
“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never get to go and be a person who you never in your life would get to be and feel something and have empathy for people and see things from another point of view.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
“Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high volume of calls" Well, you could put it that way - "Due to a high volume of calls". Or you could say, "Due to an insufficient number of employees..."”
“The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.”

Source : "Former reporter pushes peace studies". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.
“It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.”

Source : "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.
“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”

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