"The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top."

-- Harold B. Lee

#Thanksgiving Quotes #Long Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“I have known some wonderful men.”
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”

Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015
“And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.”
“What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.”

Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
“The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.”
“Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.”
“This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didnâ€™t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.176, Vintage

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