"The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability."

-- Larry Bird

#Educational Quotes #Eye Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“We cut tax exemptions in 1986, it was the most admired tax reform in U.S. history. Congress and the president worked together then to eliminate scores of loopholes and exemptions and deductions; this made taxes much simpler, and allowed a major cut in tax rates.”
“Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.”

Source : Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster
“I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.”
“I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?”
“Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.”

Source : Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.”
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”
“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.”

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