“Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“Vai de inima care n-a iubit în tinerețe!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“здесь незачем волноваться, нечего мутить; здесь только тому и удача, кто прокладывает свою тропинку не торопясь, как пахарь борозду плугом”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“А сверх того, вы все, вся ваша братия, — продолжал неугомонный Михалевич, — начитанные байбаки. Вы знаете, на какую ножку немец хромает, знаете, что плохо у англичан и у французов, — и вам ваше жалкое знание в подспорье идет, лень вашу постыдную, бездействие ваше гнусное оправдывает. Иной даже гордится тем, что я, мол, вот умница — лежу, а те, дураки, хлопочут.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
“О, это мление скуки — гибель русских людей!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev
Born place: in Oryol, Russian Empire
Born date November 9, 1818
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“Research suggests that in over 90 percent of all successful new businesses, historically, the strategy that the founders had deliberately decided to pursue was not the strategy that ultimately led to the business’s success.12 Entrepreneurs rarely get their strategies exactly right the first time. The successful ones make it because they have money left over to try again after they learn that their initial strategy was flawed, whereas the failed ones typically have spent their resources implementing a deliberate strategy before its viability could be known. One of the most important roles of senior management during a venture’s early years is to learn from emergent sources what is working and what is not, and then to cycle that learning back into the process through the deliberate channel.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“But then it came to her…just change your mind about it. About everything. Shit. That was it. "What an idiot she was. It was that simple. Just decide to stop struggling and embrace it all as a gift. And in a single second, everything is different.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
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I see in Black and Red.”
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“Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Eleanor Rigby
“with others, are likely to experience such a year.”
― Warren Buffett, quote from Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
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