"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity"

-- Publilius Syrus

#Attitude Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“People always think I get really good reviews, but I don't. That's why I don't go on the Internet much - because you can go down a dark hole looking at stuff. Once, I clicked on my name and freaked out. It's too bizarre, it's too weird, it's too unsettling.”
“We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].”
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.”

Source : "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" by Matt Mullenweg, ma.tt. November 9, 2010.
“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”
“If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, letâ€™s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].”

Source : "X-men’s Bryan Singer Versus Avengers And Iron Man". Interview with James Hoare, www.scifinow.co.uk. May 20, 2014.
“I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream 'No spoilers!' Every day on set Iâ€™ve had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!”
“Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.”

Source : Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”
“There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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