"Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them."

-- Jacqueline Susann

#Numbers Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.”
“Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.”
“Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
“That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.”
“Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”
“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”

Source : Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press
“We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.”

Source : Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson (2013). “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing”, p.139, Random House

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