"Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility."

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Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

Grant David McCracken

#Humility Quotes

“Well, it's a tie and jacket and I just don't travel with one, ... You're not going to put a coat and tie on me for dinner. I'm just being honest. Plus, the wives can't go and I'd rather see the wives be able to go instead of just all the guys. That makes it fun.”
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
“Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.”
“Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We've had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It's a wonderful thing for families - the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.”
“Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.”
“Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.”

Source : "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).
“Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?”
“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Nov 27, 2015

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