"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Track Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.”
“It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.”
“He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...”
“The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.”
“Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.”
“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.”

Source : John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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