"And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right."

-- Alan Shepard

#Thinking Quotes #Design Quotes #Training Quotes

“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.”
“Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.”
“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.”
“We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.”
“I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.”
“The only good enemy is a dead enemy.”
“A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.”

Source : "Fictional character: Robert Conway". "Lost Horizon", www.imdb.com. 1937.
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”

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