"One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was â€˜gravely disabled.â€™ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven."

-- Elyn Saks

#School Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Yale Quotes

“The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess â€“ and in business and in life in general â€“ is not trusting their instincts enough.”

Source : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 10, 2015
“I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.”
“When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.”
“Itâ€™s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened”
“I want to be a soul singer.”
“The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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