"Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it."

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Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.21, Granta Books

Leslie Jamison

#Pain Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I've been racketeered on.”

Source : "VIDEO: Randy Quaid: Evi and I 'Cannot Function'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2010.
“With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
“There is nothing Holy about hatred.”
“A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”

Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing
“I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.”
“Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.85, Penguin

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