"But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time."

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Source : Dick Francis (2004). “10 lb Penalty”, p.21, Penguin

Dick Francis

#Jobs Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“If it's ALL about me, it's NOT about MUCH!”
“I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell
“Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”

Source : Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.19, Meredith Books
“In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.”
“The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. Itâ€™s in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.”
“Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape”
“You must first be willing to fail â€” and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.”

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