"Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor."

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Source : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

Joseph Pilates

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“The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
“Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.”
“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'”
“What matters is how many times you get up.”

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys In The Boat”, p.201, Pan Macmillan
“The American empire should be destroyed.”

Source : "The Fourth Political Theory". Book by Aleksandr Dugin, 2009.
“You can do anything with children if you only play with them.”
“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.”
“But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.”

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