"I realize you cant please everyone."

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Gemma Ward

#Realizing Quotes #Please Quotes

“Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.”
“The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.”
“Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.”
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”
“I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.”
“We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.”
“Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.”
“I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.”

Source : Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

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