#once

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#camp #counselor #differently #good #had

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#back #call #came #could #doing

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#complete #confidence #deceived #even #never

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#cause #did #film #had #hopes

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bachelor #guy #made #mistake #never

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#else #emanate #expression #finding #itself

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#confuse #explicit #frank #line #mind

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. ↗