"You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."

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Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Attention Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.”
“Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.”
“If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of ***** he would drop dead of fright.”
“During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.”
“I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.”
“Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.”
“Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.”

Source : Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

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