"Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me."

-- Mary Karr

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“Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”

Source : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com
“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”
“Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.”
“With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.”
“I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.”

Source : "Richard Engel Spotlights Heroes and Victims of Everest Avalanche". Interview with Andrew Katz, time.com. June 25, 2015.
“The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.”

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