"Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good."

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Source : "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.

Chesley Sullenberger

#Opportunity Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”

Source : Vaclav Smil (2005). “Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties”, p.350, MIT Press
“Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not”
“If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motivesâ€”personal and patrioticâ€”to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for historyâ€™s blessing.”

Source : Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.524, Simon and Schuster
“Most people donâ€™t know how to appreciate the silence. They canâ€™t help talking.”
“My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.”
“The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.”
“Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.”
“Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.”

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