“Things need to change and I won't stop trying to change them.”— Leslie Dixon, John Waters, Tracy Turnblad, Nikki Blonsky, imdb.com
“We’re gonna do our jobs. And we’re gonna keep doing them until someone makes us stop.”— Tracey Rice, Patrick Cunnane, Tom Kirkman, Kiefer Sutherland, imdb.com
“You may be a fucking tough guy, but I’m a crazy guy. The difference is crazy guys don’t give up.”— David E Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro, Billy McBride, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com
“I was so young before New York that I believed loving myself each day would be easier there. But lying in bed, I can hear the wind, and the trees shaking because they have no choice, and I want to go someplace where the trees grow apples shiny and persistent as stars.”— Carlie Hoffman, narrativemagazine.com
“In their search for gold, the alchemist discovered other things–gun powder, medicine, the laws of nature. There is a sense in which we are all alchemists.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“He possesses one quality which will ever ensure success, and that is a bull dog pertinacity and perseverance which renders him ignorant of the fact that he is ever whipped.”— James E. McBeth, opinionator.blog.nytimes.com
“To have that. Not a cistern but a perpetual spring. How? By working to win your freedom. Hour by hour. Through patience, honesty, humility.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No impression in your thoughts. No retreating into your own soul or try to escape it. No overactivity.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Each time we repeat this simple rhythm: establish a base line, tune the engine, and make a decision to pivot.”— Eric Ries, amazon.com
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“Let us not expect all to go according to plan. Flexibility of mind will be one of the decisive factors. Risks must be taken... I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.”— Winston Churchill, foreignaffairs.com
“Two words should be committed to memory and obeyed by alternately exerting and restraining ourselves, words that will ensure we lead a mainly blameless and untroubled life: persist and resist.”— Epictetus, amazon.com
“For that which is otherwise quite indistinguishable all affliction, vexation, loss, grief, time alone digests.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com