"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."

-- William Congreve

#Running Quotes #Hungry Quotes #Herds Quotes

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contrivingâ€¦conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”

Source : John Dewey (2007). “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.”

Source : ING Sports interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.
“The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.”
“To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.”
“Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”
“The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair”
“My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.”

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