In memorable words of management theorist Chester Barnard, 'To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have bee.
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
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Steve Toltz
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.
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Jonathan Franzen
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
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Charles Frazier
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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W. Somerset Maugham
There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
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Nina Lacour
More Quotes By Brian Christian
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader.. This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand...
What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.
When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer...
Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot–about the world we live in, and about our own past.
