"We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?"

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Source : David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

David Leavitt

#Past Quotes #Hands Quotes #Worry Quotes

“I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really talented writer behind it all.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.”
“Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.”
“I know absolutely nothing about music.”
“The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.”

Source : Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage
“Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.”
“Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.”
“If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.”

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