Sanford I. Weill Quotes
If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.
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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
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My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
Elliott Erwitt -
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
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If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
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If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
