"Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize."

-- Cris Mazza

#Ambition Quotes #Years Quotes #Publicity Quotes

“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.”
“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”
“Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.56, Open Road Media
“No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.”
“If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.”
“If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.”
“Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.”
“I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.”

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