"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Humble Quotes #Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes

“I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.”

Source : "Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47" by Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.
“I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.”
“Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.”
“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.”
“When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.”
“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.”
“The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.”
“Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.”

Source : Phil Knight (2017). “Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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