"In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Change Quotes #Practice Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“honesty is hard work.”
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”
“The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.”
“The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.”
“Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.”
“I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.”
“There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.”
“I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.”

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