"Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others."

-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Passion Quotes #Successful Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.”
“I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off.”
“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”

Source : "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.
“In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.”
“Motherhood is always an act of courage.”
“The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.”
“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”
“Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.”

Source : Stanley Coren (2012). “How To Speak Dog”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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