"La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later."

-- Maria Bethania

#Learning Quotes #Branches Quotes #Rama Quotes

“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

Source : "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.
“The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.”
“I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.”
“The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.”
“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”
“I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.”

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