"People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Regret Quotes #People Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Little else matters than to write good code.”
“I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”
“I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.”
“You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody”

Source : Les Giblin (1956). “How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People”, p.32, Les Giblin Books
“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.”
“You are remembered for the rules you break.”
“Part of the potential of things is how they break”

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