"Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if"

-- Michael Jordan

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“I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.”

Source : "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
“True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.”
“My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. Iâ€™ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience getâ€™s cheated. Itâ€™s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that theyâ€™re singing - not just listening to someone else.”
“Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.”
“I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.”
“The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.”
“...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.”

Source : Ernest Jones (1990). “Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst”, p.201, Transaction Publishers
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”

Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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