"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself."

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Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Daniel Dennett

#Mistake Quotes #Chiefs Quotes #Tricks Quotes

“My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.”
“Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.”
“I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.”
“... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.”
“I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.”
“Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.”
“Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.”

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