"If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already."

-- Laurence J. Peter

#Work Quotes #Levels Quotes #May Quotes

“In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.”
“Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.”
“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”
“I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.”
“Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.”
“Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.”
“A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 15, 2015

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