"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

-- Thomas A. Edison

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“I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.”
“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
“Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?”
“I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.”
“Less is only more where more is no good.”

Source : Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications
“Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!”
“When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.”

Source : "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.
“You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.”

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