"From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can't do something or you're only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you."

-- Dominick Cruz

#Mma Quotes #Careers Quotes #People Quotes

“In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.”
“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”
“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.”
“Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.”
“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
“Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.”
“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC
“Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.”

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