"I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort"

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Heston Blumenthal

#Effort Quotes #Determined Quotes

“My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”
“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-winâ€¦life is self-correcting.”
“There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.”
“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.”
“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot”

Source : Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2008.
“Here's a test you can try at home, Put a 2 year old in a playpen with an apple and a rabbit. If it plays with the apple and eats the rabbit, you've got a carnivore.”

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