Michelangelo Quotes

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

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• As a matter of fact, politics knows no end. It is Samsara in operation before our eyes, the Samsara of cause and effect, of past and present, of present and future which goes round and round and never ends, What cause and what effect, what past and what present, what present and what future hold for us now in politics? We have wars and wars. What cause? What effect?

  

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• Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Succeed
  • Fail
  • Target