"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Friendship Quotes #Art Quotes #Thee Quotes

“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.”
“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”
“Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics
“You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.”
“The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.”
“How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.”
“I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.”
“This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”

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