"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Mistake Quotes #Failure Quotes #Cost Quotes

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

Source : "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
“Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless”
“It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to the FBI to recruit foreign - I mean to recruit human sources, rather, to penetrate these groups.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.”

Source : "Dear President Obama, Qualified Women are Everywhere..." by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2008.
“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”
“As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.”
“Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.”
“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”

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