"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."

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Douglass North

#Family Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Family Life Quotes

“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2012
“There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.”
“There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.282, Del Rey
“A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Testing proves a programmerâ€™s failure. Debugging is the programmerâ€™s vindication.”
“The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.”
“You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichÃ©s.”
“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”

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