Edward Scissorhands The Inventor Quotes & Sayings

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that. — Alan Greenspan

Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom — Warren Buffett

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world. — Daniel Webster

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men. — Amanda Eliasch

I think failure is just a part of life. You can't avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that's going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it. — Daniella Alonso

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be. — Sophia Amoruso

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. — Xavier Becerra

Do not exchange your soul for money. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere. — Marcus Aurelius

All the hatin just fuels to my fire. — T.I.

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit. — Gail Zappa