"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."

-- Aristotle

#Art Quotes #Training Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there are consequences to our acts, and those consequences are environmental degradation and the huge social inequalities that make our standard of living in the United States possible.”
“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”
“I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.”
“No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.”
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...”
“If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.”
“Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.”

Source : Charles R. Morris (2008). “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash”, Public Affairs

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