"First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made."

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Source : Robert E. Rubin's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.treasury.gov. May 17, 1999.

Robert Rubin

#Judging Quotes #Decision Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!”
“The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.”

Source : "Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History". Arnold J. Toynbee's speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963.
“I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.”
“The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.”
“I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.”
“It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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