"No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment."

-- Carol S. Dweck

#Accomplishment Quotes #Effort Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily”
“I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.”
“My family is my number one priority.”

Source : "Georgina Chapman: “I Am Having An Easy Pregnancy”". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. December 20, 2012.
“Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.”

Source : "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.”
“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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