"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

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Source : Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

Alistair Cooke

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Positive Quotes

“I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.
“I tasted life.”
“Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.”
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
“Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.”
“Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?”
“"Listen." There's so much to be heard.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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