"I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice."

-- Po Bronson

#Hard Times Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.”
“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.”

Source : Oscar Award for Best Leading Actor Acceptance Address, Delivered 23 March 2003, Kodak Theater, Hollywood, California
“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”
“You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.”
“If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.”

Source : Phil Vischer (2008). “Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.”

Source : "On the Roof of the World". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, December 1987.

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