"I've learned my feelings and thoughts are secondary to what needs to get done - that what matters is the next right action."

-- Sam Lamott

#What Matters Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Done Quotes

“Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.”
“An investor doesnâ€™t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.”
“It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.”

Source : 1991 Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”
“Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'”
“A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.”

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