"People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities."

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Source : Elinore Denniston, Rae Foley (1974). “The brownstone house”, Dodd Mead

Rae Foley

#Change Quotes #People Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“It's about food. It's about your home. It's about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All I'm saying is you should be worried they're worried. Here's why: They're telling you that you can't take care of yourself. You can't be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So they'll tell you what to put in your mouth and they'll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I married beneath me. All women do.”

Source : Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970 (1981)
“Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game”

Source : Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics
“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”
“When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.”

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