"The essence of training is to allow error without consequence."

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Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.19, Macmillan

Orson Scott Card

#Errors Quotes #Essence Quotes #Training Quotes

“Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?”
“We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.”
“Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better. "Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.”
“All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.”
“I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.”

Source : Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.
“It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.”
“I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.”

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