"Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue."

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Source : "Xi Jinping Meets Model Workers". english.cntv.cn. May 01, 2013.

Xi Jinping

#Beautiful Quotes #Dream Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.”
“Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.”

Source : Song: Limbo Rock
“The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society”
“No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers”

Source : Steve Blank (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.70, BookBaby
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”
“Don't follow your dream - lead it!”

Source : Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.337, Seal Press

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