"You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads."

-- Ayn Rand

#Integrity Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Independent Quotes

“I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.”
“I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”
“Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.”
“We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.”
“I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.”
“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not.”

Source : "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", Vol. 42, (p. 467), 1890.
“I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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