"The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence."

-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Mistake Quotes #Long Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.”
“I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.”
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”
“Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.”

Source : Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.3, Harper Collins
“Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.”
“How could you tell children they were playing with fire if theyÂ´d never had the experience of being burned?”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.34, Macmillan
“There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.”
“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”

Source : Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

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