"Women temper men. We have a good influence on them."

-- Helen Reddy

#Women Quotes #Men Quotes #Influence Quotes

“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.”
“If I gave you any thought I probably would.”
“In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers.”
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
“the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.”
“If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.”
“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”
“The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.”

Source : Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.317, Penguin

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