"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat."

-- Paul J. Meyer

#Giving Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.”
“All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.
“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.”
“The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.”
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”
“In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'”
“Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”

Source : Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”
“Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.”

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