"Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch."

-- Eugene Jarecki

#Regret Quotes #Watches Quotes #Deficit Quotes

“You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.”
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”
“I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say â€˜good morningâ€™ and â€˜good afternoon.'”
“The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We were outplayed in every facet of the game”

Source : Michael Clarke (2015). “Ashes Diary 2015”, p.46, Macmillan Publishers Aus.
“I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.”
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
“Growth only really comes at the point of resisÂtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurtsâ€¦pushing our limÂits is a musÂcle that can be culÂtiÂvated like any otherâ€“incrementally”

Source : "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.

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