"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."

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Source : "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

Michael Korda

#Success Quotes #Distance Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.”

Source : Gerald M. Weinberg (2001). “An Introduction to General Systems Thinking”, Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated
“... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.”
“I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.”
“The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.”
“Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.”
“Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.”

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