"If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem."

-- Tim Harford

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.”
“Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.”
“The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. ...Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.”
“I certainly support civil unions.”
“Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.”

Source : "Fictional character: Marguerite 'Camille' Gautier". "Camille", 1936.
“What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.”

Source : Christina Rossetti, Simon Humphries (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.211, Oxford University Press
“The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.”
“If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.”

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