"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."

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Source : "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“Jenny, if you're so conÂvinced I'm a loser, why did you bullÂdoze me into buyÂing you cofÂfee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.”
“Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.”
“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
“The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have always been, they're running like crazy. But I kind of stick to my roots of the disciplined quarterback. You know, I'm doing the same routine every week, studying tapes and working hard, getting ready to play and making good decisions on Sundays.”
“All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.”
“My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.”
“I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.”

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