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“What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.”

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Peter Diamandis is a physician born on May 20, 1961. He has extensive experience in the medical field and promotes health and medical knowledge globally. more

“You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.”

Mean Has Beens Helping Lasts Hours Sleep Party Rich Drug Aim Pills Applause Stardom Rich Life Sleeping Pills

Author:Susan Hayward

“I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.”

Ifs I Can Faces Water Hair If I Could Bathroom Combs

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.”

Winner Loser

Book:Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”

Faith Universe Prayer Doubt Fields Praying Built Certainty Remove Distrust Doubt And Certainty

Book:Living Without Fear

Source: Living Without Fear

“Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.”

World Ends Hard Choices Waiting Chance Stupid Hard Work Angry Mad Hardest Working It

Author:Charles Bukowski

“You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.”

Play Stealing Whiskey

Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

“When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.”

Mean Littles Fit Comfort Clothes Dressings Discomfort Overrated Pajamas

Author:Tim Gunn

“Fashion is an instant language.”

Language Fashion Instant

Author:Miuccia Prada

“We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'”

Want Children Mother Laughed Daddy Diapers Landfills Sagging

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility, for awakening to the greatest rewards of living . . . The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety-Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.”

Philosophy Character Spiritual Perfect Moral Humility Essentials Harder Rewards Edges Awakening Sensitivity Elegant Hubris Entirety Moral Philosophy Perplexed Schumacher Pitch Perfect

Author:Maria Popova

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