"At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure."

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Source : Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

Albert Speer

#Responsibility Quotes #Decision Quotes #Being Free Quotes

“When we are upset, itâ€™s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud â€“ but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.”
“In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.”
“I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.”
“I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.”
“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”
“...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.”

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