"Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?"

-- William Wordsworth

#Friendship Quotes #Book Quotes #Looks Quotes

“You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.”

Source : "What I've Learned, By Skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. November 06, 2010.
“I remember everyone who leaves.”
“In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.38, Kodansha International
“Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didnâ€™t kill people, though. I was just a badass”

Source : FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Aug 29, 2012
“There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (1907). “The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago”, p.240, Library of Alexandria
“Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers
“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
“I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.”

Source : "Next Factor: 'Big Happy Family' Star Lauren London". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2011.

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