"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."

-- Anna Pavlova

#Success Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Initiative Quotes

“If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.”
“The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”
“When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.”
“Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'”

Source : Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.
“The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.”
“Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever”

Source : Howard Fast (1977). “The Immigrants”, Dell Publishing Company
“Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct...”
“I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.”

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