Murtaja Semundje Quotes & Sayings

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure — William Feather

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. — William Shakespeare

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything."
"I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them. — Melissa Marr

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't - and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally. — Daniel Quinn

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial. — Dorothy Koomson

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back. — Bill Walsh