"Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy."

-- Owen Feltham

#Inspirational Quotes #Thanksgiving Quotes #Wise Quotes

“One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.”
“My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.”
“Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
“Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.”
“Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. Weâ€™re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.”
“Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.”
“There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well”

Source : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.292, McGraw Hill Professional
“I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.”

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