"If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny â€“ and, perhaps, even do it well."

-- Ariel Durant

#Character Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.”
“Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing”
“While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.10, Knopf
“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.”
“What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person â€“ you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.”
“How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.”
“Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.”
“There is not, in my view, a single European demos.”

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