"The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that."

-- Andre Ward

#Motivation Quotes #Father Quotes #People Quotes

“The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.”

Source : SomethingJewish Network Interview, www.somethingjewish.co.uk. December 1, 2001.
“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”
“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.”
“But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.”
“I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.”
“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

Source : Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan
“The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.”
“Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.”

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