"Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Hard Work Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Function Quotes

“We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.”
“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
“Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.”
“For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.”
“Who's that, the windbreaker?”
“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.
“A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!”

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