"And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to."

-- Cheryl Rainfield

#Determination Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Past Quotes

“The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.”
“Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.”
“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”
“Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.”
“The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.”

Source : "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
“Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.”
“My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.”

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