“There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.” IfsLooksLongMadeSaidDoneChoicesTermLevelsMistakePracticeOur LivesPerspectiveTerribleBlessingBrilliantDisasterDumbLong TermLength Author:Richard Bach
“Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.” MadeI CanHardDoneStoriesTermCan DoSeeingHugeBrilliantTalesFairyFairy TaleNot InterestedArtifactsMovie Making Author:Philip Pullman
“I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.” BelieveHumansMadeJobsPoliticalDesirePoliticsTermDifferencesMy OwnPositionLimitsCongressMaking A DifferencePledgePrestigeFrailtyTerm Limits Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
“Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.” HumansKindChildrenMadeMovingCultureTermAll KindsRepeats Author:Robert Neelly Bellah