"Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesnâ€™t mean that theyâ€™ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesnâ€™t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake."

-- Daniel Kahneman

#Mistake Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise”
“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.”
“When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.”
“Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.”
“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.”

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