Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer. The creatures of the common place. The slaves of the ordinary.
~ Cecil Beaton
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Assert integrity of purpose →
Attitude →
The problem is not the problem.
~ Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, (2003 film)
The problem is you attitude about the problem.
Do you understand?
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Thinking →
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is think with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~ A. A. Milne
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Painful experience →
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
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Hang on →
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
~ unknown
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Happiness →
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
~ unknown
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On my way →
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
~ Carl Sagan
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Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow →
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
~ Agent ‘K’, in Men in Black, (1997 film)
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Character →
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.
~ Paul Newman
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Humility →
Why is humility a virtue? Because it avoids complacency and self satisfaction, and promotes a view that there is much to be learned, much to be improved, much to be sought out, much yet to be achieved, much to be admired, understood and perhaps emulated.
~ unknown
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