"As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning"

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Source : Margaret Heffernan (2015). “Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Margaret Heffernan

#Mistake Quotes #Long Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.”
“Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.”

Source : John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat-Boy”, p.83, Anchor
“If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.”
“After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.”
“When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore, in detail and in-depth, lots of other subsidiary or ancillary supporting characters.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
“The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.”
“belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production”

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