"Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top."

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Source : Source: bknation.org

Misty Copeland

#Perseverance Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.”
“Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.”
“Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.”
“I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.”
“Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been reappraised and reinterpreted by more recent findings. Some of the older positive claims, as well as most of the negative criticisms of the Bible, have changed, usually for the better. For another, the actual amount of archaeological evidence is quite small. It has been estimated that less than 1% of archaeological sites in the Holy Land have been excavated, and those that have been excavated have only been partially excavated.”
“Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”

Source : "Of Pharaohs and Firearms". Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Website, jpfo.org. 2012.
“Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.”

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