"It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters"

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Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2014

Joel Brown

#Getting Back Up Quotes #Matter Quotes #Moments Quotes

“A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.”
“You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there's no such thing as a cautious creative).”

Source : "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.
“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time”
“...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.”
“My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.”
“I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.”
“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”
“We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.”

Source : "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 3, 1991.

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