"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect."

-- Adam Osborne

#Encouraging Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
“The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.”
“Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.”
“The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.”
“Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."”

Source : "WellPoint CEO: Wasted Opportunity for Real Reform". Interview with Joseph Rago, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2010.
“We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.”
“One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.”
“Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this also meant I had extreme empathy for other people. I think perhaps that's what makes my songs hit home for some people, because I've tried to see the world through their eyes and I recognise- even just for a second- that we all ultimately are struggling with the same things.”

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