"Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path."

-- Sha Zukang

#Opportunity Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself”
“It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.”
“I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.”
“What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job titleâ€”whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.”

Source : "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.
“There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.”
“I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.”
“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.”
“Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.”

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