George Soros Quotes

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

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• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Tears
  • Satisfy
  • Meal

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Team
  • I Can

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Style
  • Guitar
  • Big

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • New

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Game
  • Moments
  • Winning

• Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Boyfriend

• I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Search

• Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Great

• I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Air
  • Movies
  • Actors

• Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Education
  • Religion
  • Danger

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  

  George Soros
  • Understanding
  • Mistakes
  • Condition