Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 09, 2016
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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John Cleese (1939 - )  
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965  
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006  
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
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Erica Jong  

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