"Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing."

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Source : Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.198, Ballantine Books

Gail Sheehy

#Skills Quotes #Light Quotes #Doors Quotes

“I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.”
“Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.”

Source : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books
“Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.”
“I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?”
“There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.”
“One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.”
“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

Source : "Auschwitz: the Nazis & The 'Final Solution'". Book by Laurence Rees (p. 89), 2005.
“You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.”

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