"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

-- Gerald Brenan

#Boredom Quotes #Bores Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.”
“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

Source : All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5
“Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s”
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
“Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.”
“What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight”
“I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be about to have sex with a beautiful girl and I'll say, 'Sorry darling, I'm fighting in a few weeks.' That's control, bro, when you're turning down a hot chick in your subconscious.”

Source : "David Haye takes on a giant". Interview With Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.
“A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.”

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