"Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Wish Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Virtuous Quotes

“My mantra is "Better is better".”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
“Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?”
“Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time”

Source : "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.
“Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.”
“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”
“I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.”
“Don't you open your mouth about the best!”

Source : "Richard Sherman: Rant was" by By Lateef Mungin, Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. January 23, 2014.

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