"Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving."

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Lois McMaster Bujold

#Achieve Quotes #Overachieving Quotes

“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."”
“Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.”
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
“How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.”
“Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.”
“On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.”
“I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.”

Source : Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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