"Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway."

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Source : Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

Laurence Gonzales

#Leadership Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?”
“Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.”
“This,â€™ whispered the Doctor to Romana, â€˜is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.”
“AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.”
“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage
“I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.”
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family”
“Language was invented to ask questions.”

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