"American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome."

-- Jack Germond

#Years Quotes #Attention Quotes #Four Quotes

“Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.”
“Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.”
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.
“Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.”
“People will urge you to go to school. Theyâ€™ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80â€™s. You are here to hustle.”
“A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.”
“It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.”
“My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.”

Source : Dan Marino, Marc Serota, Mark Vancil (1996). “Marino: on the record”, Collins Pub San Francisco

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