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Chang-Rae Lee

"And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all."

-- Chang-Rae Lee

#Sorry Quotes #Practice Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“I donâ€™t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.”
“I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, donâ€™t accept your limitations, jump before youâ€™re pushed, leap before you look.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“All our souls are written in our eyes.”

Source : EDMOND ROSTAND (1923). “CYRANO DE BERGERAC”
“But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.”
“People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers’ needs.”
“Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope itâ€™s understood.”
“Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”

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