"I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia."

-- James Packer

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Australia Quotes

“There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.”

Source : Source: alwaysacoustic.com
“The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”
“I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.”
“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”
“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”

Source : Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press
“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
“If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.”

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