"If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification."

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Source : Bill Bonner (2012). “Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

Bill Bonner

#Long Quotes #Mark Quotes #Delayed Gratification Quotes

“I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.”
“When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well heâ€™ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you donâ€™t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far down below / on his bed of dirt from grave / from his dank and silent cave / he watches you yet has no sight / he taketh you away at night”

Source : Jack Goldstein (2012). “Slenderman, Slenderman - And Other Terrifying Tales”, p.20, Andrews UK Limited
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
“Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love”
“My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.”
“Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.”

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