"Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict."

-- Norman Cousins

#Wisdom Quotes #Trying Quotes #Diagnosis Quotes

“For the first time in Rex Ryanâ€™s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.”
“For each of our actions there are only consequences.”
“I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.”
“Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.”
“Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.”

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.”
“I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.”

Source : "Ashley Greene: The Bombshell". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.
“People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.”

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