"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2015). “Sweet Dreams”, p.90, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

#Creating Quotes #Beats Quotes #Impression Quotes

“We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.”
“I've spent a lot of time off planet.”
“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.”
“I am the original Material Girl.”
“You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free”

Source : Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991
“The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.”
“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.”
“Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.”

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