"I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."

-- George Eliot

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“I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.”
“Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.189, Profile Books
“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”
“I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.”
“None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.”

Source : "Fictional character:Ôishi". "47 Ronin", www.imdb.com. 2013.
“It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.”
“It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.”
“National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.”

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