"Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident."

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William Feather

#Mistake Quotes #Men Quotes #Over Confident Quotes

“The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.”
“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.”
“My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.”
“I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.”

Source : "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: the 'I will follow'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 9, 2011.
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.”
“The line was originally, â€˜Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,â€™ but I ad-libbed.”
“Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.”
“It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.”

Source : "Is The Proof Out There, Too?". Rocky Mountain News, June 06, 1999.

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