"But now isnâ€™t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until â€” later of sooner â€” perhaps â€” no, not perhaps â€” quite certainly: it will come."

-- Christopher Isherwood

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“Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House
“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.”
“Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.”
“A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.”
“What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.”
“I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.”
“Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.”

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