"If you act like you can do something, then it will work."

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Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Walter Isaacson

#Like You Quotes

“This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.”
“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."”
“I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.”
“Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.”
“It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.”
“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2015
“...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing
“In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.”

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