"Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him."

-- Luther Burbank

#Boys Quotes #Promise Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.”

Source : Richard Sennett (2009). “The Craftsman”, p.17, Penguin UK
“The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.”
“I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.”
“A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.”
“Above all else, be consistent.”
“We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.”
“I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...”
“I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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