Assorted quotations
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.
—Voltaire
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Frankly, that's a distinction without a difference
have a slippery relationship with the truth?
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." -Ann Landers
"Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir mens' blood" Daniel Burnham, Chicago 1871.
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." from William Bruce Cameron’s 1963 text “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking.”
The author's point is not that black people do not have iPhones or Facebook, but that they are not in the same social circles as white people, the people who have the power to offer jobs to persons within their social circles.
Having a social network is useless unless it involves people with power.
Malone: You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Ness: Anything within the law.
Malone: And then what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they're not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.
Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Nora Ephron once said that you bring a "no crying in baseball" philosophy when it comes to work.
There's something to be said for you the actor being accessible. Very early on, by way of the first job I ever had, I realized you can be a real ally to the production. You can make things happen easier if you show up on time, if you know your lines well, if you have ideas. (Interviewing of Tom Hanks by Rachel Dodes).
the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer — and wouldn’t that be a test of the group’s code of confidentiality if Mr. Ford were to show up for a meeting — puts it, “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
"every week, some do and most don't" - Bruce Dern retelling a quote from his uncle
Learn from your mistakes
If you only know the answer to “how”, you’ll end up working for someone who knows the answer to the question “why?”
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world [i.e. = he's willing to "go along to get along" = "preference falsification"]: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.[i.e. = disagreeableness"]
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