"Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do."

-- Wangari Maathai

#Knocked Down Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.”
“When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.”
“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”
“I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.”
“Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.”

Source : "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.
“If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands”
“And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting....”
“Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.”

Source : Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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