"Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years."

-- David Rubenstein

#Years Quotes #Risk Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“I'm a person with virtually no feelings.”
“In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.”
“The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.”
“The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.”
“Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.”
“When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?”
“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”
“Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.”

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