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“I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.”

Needs Years Earth Fall Gold Believer Firm Shakes Miners Nuggets Year One Yukon

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.”

Kind Art Book Facts Light Film Certain Rich Childhood Information Fool Skills Gold Caught Developing Gathering Priceless Scrap Pitiful Art History Arranging Bohemian Nuggets Magpies

Book:The Moor's last sigh

Source: The Moor's last sigh

“In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.”

Said Lying Gold Wings Size California Rumor Nuggets Walnuts

Book:Boneshaker

Source: Boneshaker

“So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.”

Ifs Gold Lust Satisfied Miners Old Time Nuggets

Author:Ava Gardner

“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.”

Trying Years Leadership Mines Mountain Gold Fifty Nuggets

Book:How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.”

People Mean Stills Dream Earth Television Gold Series Riches California Literal Nuggets

Author:Huell Howser

“Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.”

Reading Study Labor Gold Mere Deeper Surface Secure Take Time It Takes Time Nuggets

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.”

Real Drug Picks Gold Shining Hip Hop Rap Rough Microphones Rugged Nuggets

Author:Jeru the Damaja