Ann Patchett

STATUS QUOtes — 20210413

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.” — Bill Vaughan

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.” — Ann Patchett

“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200706

Jeff

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow.” — Jeb Dickerson

“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” — Phil McGraw

“Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.” — Ann Patchett

“It’s like the saying among airline pilots that the best flying team has three components: a pilot, a computer and a dog. The computer is there to fly the plane, the pilot is there to feed the dog. And the dog is there to bite the human if it tries to touch the computer.” — Hannah Fry, Mathematician and algorithm expert

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200305

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.” — Twyla Tharp

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.” — Ann Patchett

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You’ve got to keep working that talent.” — Irving Berlin

“The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!” — Joan Ganz Cooney

 

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