Kurt Russell Tombstone Quotes & Sayings

If they're forced into a challenge they don't feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call "self-handicapping": deliberately doing things that will hamper their performance in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing well. — Megan McArdle

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines. — Neil Gaiman

Only ailments didn't work that way, did they? You couldn't placate them with sacrifices. — Stephen King

I've had a great life, and it all happened because I didn't plan any of it. — Eugene Walter

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, — Benjamin Franklin

I was scared of one thing after another. I still am.
Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both. — John Berger

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it. — Matthew McGrory

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. — Derek Bok

This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation. — Seneca.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. — Martha Gellhorn

The soul is the truth of who we are. — Marianne Williamson

Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn't stand was how - for many years, really - she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses. — Elizabeth Strout