"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."

-- Idries Shah

#Hard Work Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters”
“The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.”
“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”
“It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press
“Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.”
“It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.”
“The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.”

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