"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

#Forgiving Quotes #Critics Quotes

“Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.”
“I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.”
“Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!”
“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
“If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.”
“I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.”
“At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what's priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no 'good' or 'bad' horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones.”
“When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.”

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