"Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations."

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Source : A Summer Birdcage ch. 1 (1963)

Margaret Drabble

#Thinking Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.”
“I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.”
“Money is a never-ending problem.”
“Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.”
“I have no need for that hypothesis.”
“If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.”
“I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.”
“The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.”

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