"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Cicely Tyson

#Adversity Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.”
“A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.”
“Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know...”
“It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.”
“I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.”
“I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.”
“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”
“If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.”

Source : "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.

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