"I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them."

-- Valeria Luiselli

#Distance Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.”
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

Source : Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”
“I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.”
“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.”
“Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.”
“I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.”
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”

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