Sharon Begley Quotes
Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.
Quotes to Explore
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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I just am who I am.
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If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
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In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
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In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
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In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.
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Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.
