"The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song."

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Source : Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

Roger Dawson

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.”
“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”
“Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.”
“I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.”
“I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.”
“But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.”
“We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.”

Source : "Mike Lofgren on Dysfunction in Our Political Parties". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. August 31, 2012.
“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”

Source : Ziauddin Sardar (2011). “Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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