"No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same."

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Source : Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

Jay Asher

#Life Quotes #Impact Quotes #People Quotes

“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.”
“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.”
“Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”
“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.”
“The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.”
“I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.”
“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.”

Source : Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (2000). “A Heart So White”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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