"I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water."

-- Tim Costello

#Leadership Quotes #Australia Quotes #Water Quotes

“I'm a sentimental guy.”
“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say â€˜I believe in you.â€™ At that point, I just needed someone to say â€˜I see you, I get you, letâ€™s go.â€™ Itâ€™s an amazing thing to borrow someone elseâ€™s confidence in you; it can change your life.”
“I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.”
“Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.”
“When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.”

Source : Francesca Marciano (1999). “Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa”, Vintage Books
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.128, Basic Books

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