"Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!"

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Source : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Aug 26, 2011

Denise Austin

#Success Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Desperation Quotes

“The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.”
“I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.”

Source : "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. [...] Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.”
“A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.”

Source : Alice Childress (2012). “Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life”, p.78, Beacon Press
“You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.”

Source : Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

Source : Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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