"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

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Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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“Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.”
“I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.”
“I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life.”
“I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.”
“I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

Source : "Man of the Cloth: Q&A with The Pillars of the Earth's Matthew Macfadyen". Interview with Joan Wagner, www.oprah.com. July 29, 2010.
“You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.”
“Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.”
“The outcome is what you put in.”

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