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Perspective Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett


“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
― Tim Burton

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole


“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder


“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon


“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell


“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie


“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright


“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz


“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw


“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen



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CURIOSITY QUOTES

CURIOSITY QUOTES


“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein


“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson


“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde


“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder


“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
― Holly Black


“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.”
― Saul D. Alinsky


“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Blaise Pascal

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
― Henry James


“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
― Aaron Swartz


“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
― Norton Juster


“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
― Homer Hickam

“Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed.”
I grinned. “Then I daresay it’s good I’m a woman.”
― Susan Dennard


“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life’s best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish — to just ask the question.”
― Melissa Senate


“A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”
― Isak Dinesen

“I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.”
― Stephen Fry


“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”
― Michael J Fox

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”
― Michael J Fox


“Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”
― Philo

“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
― Umberto Eco


“You ask a lot of questions, don’t you?”
“My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.”
― Cassandra Clare

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France


“I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
― Jenny Han

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ”
― Arnold Edinborough


“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
― Leo Rosten

“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”
― Rudyard Kipling


“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling”
― Linus Pauling

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead.”
― Susan Sontag


“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.”
― Roy Bennett


“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney


“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
― John Cage


“Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there’s any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.”
― Rhi Etzweiler

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”
― Alain de Botton


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LUCK QUOTES [BLOG#8]

LUCK QUOTES

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― Bill Watterson


“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson


“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree”
― Anchee Min


“Why hasn’t anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Brandon Sanderson,

“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
― Terry Pratchett


“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
― Brandon Mull

“Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
― Alice Hoffman


“Luck is a woman. She’s drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Truly being lucky is defying the very idea of luck because you never need it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich


“WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY BRINGS THE BEST LUCK”
― J. Lepika

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.”
― Ernest Hemingway, 


“The price must be paid if you want to go beyond mediocrity. Simply put, pure luck does not exist. It’s about planning and doing. Nothing happens by chance.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Success is only possible to those who rely least on luck.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo


“Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“When you work your tail off for something, it isn’t luck.”
― Frank Sonnenberg,


“I have observed that in most of badluck cases, word “luck” is equal to ‘’effort’’.”
― Hassnain Malik

“THE LUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU GOT A BRAIN BUT THE UNLUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU DON’T MIND IT”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar


“Your luck doesn’t decide your future. Your hard work does.”
― Garima Soni

“The more you wish, the more you increase your level of expectation.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo


“Nothing happens by chance. Luck does not exist. Whether it’s good or bad luck or karma, everything has a because behind it.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Concentration attracts luck factor.”
― Amit Ray, 


“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
― James Baldwin

“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.”
― Roald Dahl,


“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ”
― Anne Tyler

“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck’s terrible.)”
― Groucho Marx,


“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
― Mark Twain,

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn


“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don’t forget to put out your nets!”
― Lloyd Alexander,

“Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.”
― Steve Maraboli


“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”
― Anthony Doerr

“Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.”
― craig ferguson


“I still prepare and create my luck, because I know that it only exists after creation.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The concept of luck flew in the face of the Omnissiah’s divine plan and was therefore a falsehood.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden


“Thus Lucky finders way to True Luckiest Beholder Mother of Good Luck, Chance happen to them All”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Celebrating our luck, we’re celebrating someone’s failure.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov


“I am lucky to be born empty and die empty, the remaining are unlucky.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
― Glenway Wescott, 


“You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.”
― Twyla Tharp,

“You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.”
― Shannon Hale, 


“To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo


“Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!”
― James Hauenstein

“Bad luck is what results when bad things happen to you unprepared, or when you neglect to do what you have to do when you are supposed to do it.”
― Saidi Mdala


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