"My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith."

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Source : "Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

Paul Budnitz

#Stupid Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.”
“You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.”
“On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly”
“When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.”
“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”
“The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.”
“Sarah Brown is a sweetie to work with. She's a good actress. She's gutsy and she comes in and she knows her lines. She's just terrific. Sometimes I forget how young she is, because she truly walked right in and took the territory and was able to hold her own with people who've been here for so many years. To be able to pull that off [for someone who had never been on a show], I really give the woman a lot of credit. She's done great.”

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