"It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm."

-- Yehudi Menuhin

#Accomplishment Quotes #Age Quotes #Maintaining Quotes

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
“The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'”
“Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.”
“A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.”
“Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.”
“If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard....”
“A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.”
“Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.”

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