"It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work."

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Source : Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

Wilt Chamberlain

#Believe Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before”
“I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the appeal it has been an uphill battle because I am an unpopular cause. Too much public pressure, too much politics. To give me a hearing so that I can prove that the state withheld evidence favourable to me, that the identifications of some of the victims was wrong, and that my attorney was more concerned about book rights and how sensationally more the case could get the higher the value of the book.”
“I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2009). “The Sword Thief”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.
“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”
“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.”
“You never toot your own horn.”
“If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.”
“I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.”

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