"Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do."

-- James Lovelock

#Mistake Quotes #Making Mistakes Quotes #Grants Quotes

“I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.”
“A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”
“Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).”
“No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.”
“Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.”
“The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.”
“Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.”
“Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used”

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