"Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated."

-- Larry McMurtry

#Understanding Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Overrated Quotes

“Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five”
“I was always an overachiever.”
“Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.”
“There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.”

Source : "Kelly Wearstler Celebrates Her Fourth Book, 'Rhapsody'". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. February 07, 2013.
“Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

Source : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366
“When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.”
“What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.”

Source : Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. March 12, 2002.
“There's nothing I won't attempt.”

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