"It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do."

-- Jonah Lehrer

#Success Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”
“If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
“Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.”
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
“My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.”
“I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.”

Source : "Jessica Capshaw: I Have Hearty Children" by Michael Buckner/WireImage, celebritybabies.people.com. July 31, 2011.
“We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.”

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