"Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it."

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Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#Trying Quotes #Waste Quotes #Merit Quotes

“What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.”
“We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.”

Source : "Showdown Looms as Burris Declares 'I Am Now the Junior Senator'", www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2009.
“One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.”

Source : Josh McDowell (1977). “More Than a Carpenter”, Tyndale House Pub
“How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.”
“We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.”
“I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.”
“I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.”
“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”

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