"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Underestimate Quotes #Exaggeration Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
“I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.”
“I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.”
“It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.”
“The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.”

Source : "‘Morning Joe’ Co-Host Mika Brzezinksi’s Favorite Things" by Miller Mobley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.
“When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!”

Source : On the appointment of Herbert O'Brien as a judge in 1936, in William Manners 'Patience and Fortitude' (1976) p. 219

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