"I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world."

-- Armand Hammer

#Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes #Age Quotes

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
“So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For .............. you are treasured Today and all the while.”
“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”

Source : Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly in 1962. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 117, 1967.
“Let me tell you something, I didn't become a lawyer because I like the law, the law sucks. It's boring, but it can also be used as a weapon. You want to bankrupt somebody? Cost him everything he's worked for? Make his wife leave him, even make his kids cry...yeah, we can do that.”
“I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.”

Source : "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.
“The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.”
“I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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