"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."

-- Allan Sloan

#Gold Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes #Columns Quotes

“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”
“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
“Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, theyâ€™d think, â€˜Well, that canâ€™t be a vampire.”
“I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.”
“What are you thinking?â€ She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.”
“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
“Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.”
“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”

Source : "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.

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