"To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve."

-- Ken Adam

#Successful Quotes #Ego Quotes #Trying Quotes

“So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.”
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

Source : "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.
“Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.”

Source : Source: joonbug.com
“I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.”
“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”
“What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.”
“You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.”
“You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.”

Source : "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life's epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.

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