"I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths."

-- John H. Johnson

#Mean Quotes #Vision Quotes #Use Quotes

“I feel pretty confident in my own ability.”
“I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.”

Source : "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.
“We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.”
“What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy”
“Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.”

Source : "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses". www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.
“Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.”
“It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.”
“I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.”

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