"An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot."

-- Xenocrates

#Country Quotes #Ambassadors Quotes #Study Quotes

“Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.”
“Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.”
“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.”
“If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.”
“Thereâ€™s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and thereâ€™s a lot of fun to be had doing that.”
“I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.”
“You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.”
“That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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