"If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life."

-- Elie Saab

#Determined Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.”
“Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.”
“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute â€”including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the worldâ€”the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”
“To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”

Source : Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.265
“The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.”

Source : "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.
“Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1989). “The Tears of Eros”, p.177, City Lights Books
“If we still advise we shall never do.”
“So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person -- you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love in love with life.”

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