"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Success Quotes #Congratulations Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.”
“Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.”
“Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.”
“People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.”
“Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?”

Source : Robert Harris (1998). “Archangel: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
“The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.”

Source : Berton Braley, “Opportunity”
“I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.”
“I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.”

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