There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

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If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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