"Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness."

-- John Ortberg

#Grit Quotes #Aimlessness Quotes

“So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.”
“Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.”

Source : Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.22, VM eBooks
“It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.”
“For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).”
“Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.”
“Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.”
“When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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