"People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices."

-- Phil Cooke

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.”

Source : "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.
“My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.”

Source : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
“I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world... Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.”
“Iâ€™m a human being, Iâ€™m not anyoneâ€™s mascot! And I am Americaâ€™s conscience. And thatâ€™s what they donâ€™t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.”
“We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.”
“As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.”

Source : "Another Dem to skip convention" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. July 3, 2012.
“No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.”

Source : Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.59, Atlantic Books Ltd
“For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon.”

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