"When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success."

-- Cullen Hightower

#Ambition Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”
“Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”
“Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact”
“I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.”
“Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.”
“The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.”

Source : "Plum Island". Book by Nelson DeMille, www.bookreporter.com. April 1, 1997.
“Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.”
“He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces.”

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