"Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward."

-- Michael Lewis

#Sacrifice Quotes #Long Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.”
“Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: â€˜A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.â€™ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.”
“Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What my upbringing got me is never feeling completely safe emotionally. Never knowing when something racial was going to pop off based on how I look. So that's something I've carried with me personally and is reflected in my work.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.”
“Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”
“There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.”
“I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com

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