"The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly."

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Mistake Quotes #Growing Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.”

Source : "Reagan-Appointed Judge: Deregulation Movement Made ‘A Fundamental Mistake’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2012.
“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”

Source : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.457, Penguin
“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.”
“The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.”
“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”
“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
“So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.”
“The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.”

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