"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal."

-- Elbert Hubbard

#Greatness Quotes #People Quotes #Goal Quotes

“But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.”

Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan
“My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.”
“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.”
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
“I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's doubled. And it's not even harmonized, it's all the same note! And I'm like, "Oh, that sounds epic." I don't know, it's just one of those arbitrary taste things.”
“The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
“I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.”

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