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“It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further...” -- Pablo Picasso

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

-- Bill Cosby

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

-- George Burns

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

-- Confucius

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

-- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence

Enough Stuff?

There are two ways to have enough in life: Obtain more or desire less

--unknown

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We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

-- James Lane Allen

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

-- Tom Stoppard

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forget to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing”

Aristotle

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There is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. Real nobility is in being superior to your former self.*

-- unattributed

*A great quote I gleaned from here

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

-- (Enoch) Arnold Bennett

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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

-- John Keats

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

-- Lou Holtz

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

-- Erica Mann Jong

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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

-- George Herbert Allen

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"They are just like regular people but they were given one extraordinary gift, so you've probably met people when you were a kid who were great in math in school but he didn't do his homework, he probably didn't get as far as the guy who did his homework. It's the same thing in distance running."

ING NYC Marathon Director David Monti

From one of my favourite dead novelists, a quote:

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

-- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

Came across this quote yesterday:

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. -- O.H. Mowrer

I like this one.

Unknown may have been a runner

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

-- Author Unknown