"I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going."

-- Mariska Hargitay

#Father Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.”
“Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.”
“You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.”
“I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the "typical liberal" - as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.”
“Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.”
“I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.”
“There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want”
“I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.”

Source : Irwin Shaw (2013). “Short Stories: Five Decades”, p.68, Open Road Media

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