"One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good dayâ€™s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good dayâ€™s work?'"

-- David Heinemeier Hansson

#Good Day Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.5, Albert Einstein Institution
“Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.”
“It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“"Star Wars" was the right movie for me. I watched the MSE-6 droid leading the stormtroopers where they needed to go when they were under attack, and that got my attention much more so than C-3PO and R2-D2 because we could actually build that.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.”

Source : "Q&A – Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.”

Source : M. Russell Ballard (2001). “When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness”, Deseret Book Company
“I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.”
“People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.”

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