"A successful career has been full of blunders."

-- Charles Buxton

#Successful Quotes #Careers Quotes #Blunders Quotes

“Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.”

Source : Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”
“The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra
“So either your a vampire or a perv. Which is it?”
“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”
“I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.”
“When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.40, Courier Corporation
“One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.”
“If there are people who do it better than you, why do it?”

Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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