"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational Quotes

“What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.”
“Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.”
“There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.”

Source : "Kodokan Judo : The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.
“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”
“Miles Davis came in a couple of days and said, "Oh, man, I love that. Keep going." So he said, "Let me know when you need trumpet." And he came in, and he was sitting there, and I was very intimidated, because now he's going to play the trumpet on something that I wrote." He starts to play, and I go, "That's not right, but I don't know how to tell him it's not right." Finally he goes, "When are you going to tell me what to do?" He said, "This is your music. I know you know how it's supposed to sound. Stop fooling around. We don't have time."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.”
“Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.”
“When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.”

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