"We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that."

-- Mark Twain

#Carpe Diem Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.”
“I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.”

Source : "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.
“I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.”
“I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.334, ShandonPress
“Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.”

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