"As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day."

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Source : "GOP memo predicts drop in Bush poll numbers" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2003.

Matthew Dowd

#Fall Quotes #Successful Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”
“Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.”
“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.”
“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.51, Shambhala Publications
“The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press
“There is magic in patience, you know.”
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”

Source : John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group
“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

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