"You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities."

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Source : Twitter post from Nov 16, 2015

Orrin Woodward

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“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”
“Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.”
“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”
“I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.”
“An idea that is confident always looks masculine.”
“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'”

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