"Effort supposes resistance."

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Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.369, Indiana University Press

Charles Sanders Peirce

#Effort Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.”
“I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.”
“This is the moment â€” this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. Thatâ€™s what our job is. Itâ€™s not about impressing people. Itâ€™s not about getting the next job. Itâ€™s about contributing something.”
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.”
“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the wallsâ€”even if you'd once been best friendsâ€”was now just that, outsiders.”
“What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.”
“I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.”

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