"I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me."

--

Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

Ariel Dorfman

“Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.”
“Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.”
“One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.”
“Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.”
“The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.”
“to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance”

Source : J Krishnamurti, Mabel Collins, H P Blavatsky (2014). “Inspirations from Ancient Wisdom: At the Feet of the Master, Light on the Path, the Voice of the Silence”, p.52, Quest Books
“Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.”
“Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights”

You may also like:

Augusto Pinochet
Former President of Chile
Harold Pinter
Playwright
Isabel Allende
Writer
Kerry Kennedy
Writer
Roman Polanski
Film director
Salvador Allende
Former President of Chile
Susan Meiselas
Photographer
Tony Kushner
Playwright
Walt Disney
Animator