"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Confidence Quotes

“I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! Iâ€™m 24 now, so I guess Iâ€™ve been very, very lucky that it doesnâ€™t show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guessâ€¦”
“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.”

Source : "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.
“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.”
“The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4
“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
“I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have a relationship with your fans, and there is a feedback loop there. And while you have to be careful not to write a show just for the superfans, that kind of feedback is really valuable.”
“To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.”

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