"Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Time Quotes #Determination Quotes

“Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.”

Source : "'DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.
“I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.”
“The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.”
“Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What kind of belt do you have?”
“One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.”
“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”
“It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February, 28 2011.

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