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- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.
- William Lyon Phelps
- Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
- Author Unknown
- The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
- Vauvenargues
- I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
- Grace Speare
- Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
- Jeremy Collier
- The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
- Shunryu Suzuli
- Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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