"Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer."

-- Peter Drucker

#Successful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Careers Quotes

“The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.”

Source : "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.
“When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?”
“The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked”
“... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...”
“Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.”
“When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.”

Source : Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin
“Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down”
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48

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