"Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Self Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.”

Source : "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.
“My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.”
“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.”
“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.”
“Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons
“After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.”
“At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.”
“The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.”

Source : "Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations". Book edited by Peter McDonald, p. 9, 2004.

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