"If at first you don't succeed, C4"

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Jamie Hyneman

#Firsts Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others.”
“The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.”
“I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.”

Source : "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.
“Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you”
“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.”
“Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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