Jean Pascal quotes

“People need a sense of purpose. Gross margins are not the stuff of which dreams are made. And even without going so far as to talk of dreams, you cannot inspire people to take action, create or motivate without instilling a sense of purpose, especially when times are difficult.”
-- Jean Pascal

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“Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.”
-- Jean Pascal

Source : "Pascal: 'I learned from the Hopkins fights'" by Brian Campbell, proxy.espn.com. January 15, 2014.

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“The beauty about boxing fights is that they offer lots of opportunity to really learn something about yourself and your opponent.”
-- Jean Pascal

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.”

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India

“Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.”