"[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them."

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Source : William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”

William Westney

#Knowing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Apologizing Quotes

“The Christians to the lions sold out every night.”
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.”

Source : "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.
“I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.”
“It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good”
“... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.”
“When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like a red line, runs an eyewitness report by Hanna Reitsch about the final days in the bunker. I never said it. I never wrote it. I never signed it. It was something they invented. Hitler died with total dignity.”
“Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.”
“I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.”

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