"Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results."

-- Ernest Shackleton

#Effort Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Results Quotes

“I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.”
“People want to know that they're going to get tax relief and Donald Trump has promised that.”
“Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.”
“A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.”
“I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.”
“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”
“It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

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