“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
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Amercian book author 1923–2017Related quotes
The Next in Line (1947)
Source: The October Country (1955)
Context: “Don’t these people ever get lonely?”
“They’re used to it this way.”
“Don’t they get afraid, then?”
”They have a religion for that.”
“I wish I had a religion.”
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking,” he said. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
Ingvar Kamprad
(1926–2018) Entrepreneur
Quoted in the October 2017 issue of <i>Men’s Health</i> magazine, page 41.
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Harry Truman
(1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Address to the Democratic National Convention (15 July 1948) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/33_truman/psources/ps_convention48.html; this has often been paraphrased as: "They are wrong and we are right and I'm going to prove it to you!"
Yogi Berra
(1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Speaking with teammates on July 12, 1949, during a pre-All-Star-Game clubhouse meeting, as quoted in Baseball is a Funny Game (1960) by Joe Garagiola; cited in "Point Blank" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69696307/ by Don Bryant, in The Lincoln Star (Sunday, June 5, 1960), p. 31.