"The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions."

-- Philip Emeagwali

#Opportunity Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Important Quotes

“Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?”

Source : John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin
“I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.”
“Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.”
“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
“Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. Celtic Tiger is my finest work to date. Budapest is one of my favourite cities in the world and I can think of no greater place to preview my new show.”

Source : "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.”
“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
“The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.”

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