#mist

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#chemist #chemistry #every #good #needs

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#builds #dungeons #pessimist #who

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#easily #falling #fun #i #i do

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#good #life #like #make #mistakes

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#ask #bandits #chechen #everyone #here

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#away #does #done #extremists #fact

Every mistake is a edification, what makes us stronger than we are right now. ↗

— Me

#despair #edification #furious #inspiration #mistake

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#assume #first #mistake #serious

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#economics #economists #expertise #intellect #mind