"The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is."

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Kent Beck

#Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold. (on Michael Owen)”
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.”
“I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.”
“That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”
“Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.”
“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.”
“The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.”
“Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.”

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