To never, never, never give up.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
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To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion.
Simon Boas
Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
All our tombs will be unvisited in a few years - all our actions will mostly be unremembered - but the smile you gave the checkout lady or the kind words you gave to a stranger in the street could still be rippling forward. We all have that opportunity and it's a huge power.
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View profile →Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.
The same as most people. Money and, will I ever work again?
I spent years trying to work out the secret of acting. I read all the books by the great teachers and got nowhere. They were so busy making it sound complex. I just couldn’t figure it out. Then one day my acting coach in LA told me to ‘think before you act’. It was so simple – when you are acting don’t just speak the words, but concentrate and think about what you are going to say all the time. It worked for me.
Losing one of my children.
I would not get married until I was in my 30s.
Their clothes' lines. The oil crisis could be solved if people didn't use dryers.
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