"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."

-- Rita Dove

#Mean Quotes #Joy Quotes #Grew Quotes

“I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.”
“To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. â€œâ€”I sometimes doubt if heâ€™s human,â€ said Will, speaking his thought aloud. â€œItâ€™s probably all done with wheels.”
“Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.”
“In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.”
“It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.”
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”
“The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.

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