"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."

-- Alain de Botton

#Successful Quotes #Incentives Quotes #Littles Quotes

“My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

Source : "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.
“With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.”
“Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.”
“You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.”
“Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.”
“The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36.28 percent of it is pretty peculiar”

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