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  • #1
    Robin Sharma
    “Give out what you most want to come back.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #2
    Robin Sharma
    “Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #3
    Robin Sharma
    “What gets measured gets improved.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #4
    Robin Sharma
    “Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes change.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #5
    Robin Sharma
    “The doorway to success swings outward not inward.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #6
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #7
    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #8
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

    {Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #10
    Christopher Hitchens
    “I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #11
    Norman Mailer
    “If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ”
    Norman Mailer

  • #12
    William T. Sherman
    “I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
    William T. Sherman

  • #13
    Sophie Jordan
    “You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.”
    Sophie Jordan, Firelight

  • #14
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #15
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #16
    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #17
    “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
    Karen Lamb

  • #18
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #19
    Janet Dailey
    “Someday is not a day of the week.”
    Janet Dailey

  • #20
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
    Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

  • #21
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #22
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968



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