"I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices."

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Source : David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.16, Harper Collins

David Cottrell

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“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages; and it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.”
“There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.”
“I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.”
“I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.”
“What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“It's a lot easier to teach someone how to use a computer than it is to teach someone how to be an artist, so we figured if they can animate with a pencil, we can teach them how to animate with a computer.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”
“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”

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