"Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Dark Quotes #Surface Quotes #Apparitions Quotes

“Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.”
“How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.”
“The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.”
“Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.”
“Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]”
“A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.33, Penguin
“It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.”
“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”

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