"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes

“I do, Iâ€™m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
“We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.”
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.”
“A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them”
“Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
“Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.”

Source : Kathy Reichs (2015). “Grave Secrets”, p.314, Simon and Schuster
“If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.”

Source : "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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