"People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I'd achieved the first....) Anyway, if there's a lesson to be learned, it's this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?"

-- Brandon Sanderson

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Love as distinct from â€œbeing in loveâ€ is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...”
“I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.”

Source : "Vanessa Williams: 'Vacation'". Interview with Tatiana Morales, www.cbsnews.com. April 06, 2004.
“Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.”

Source : "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, 3.72, c. 440 BC.
“Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.”
“The rap game will never be at peace. The rap game is built upon competition. There will always be competition and as long as there's competition, there will never be peace. There's a heavy competition in every scene. Everyone wants to be the one.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness”
“Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.20, Penguin
“Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.”

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