Source: Time to Let Go
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“There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.”
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 3, Finance Basics, p. 69
In Search of the Miraculous (1949), Ch. 10. p. 203
“How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?”
Source: The Autobiography of God
“It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.”
Maxims and Moral Sentences
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: I used to hide behind the façade that was Cary Grant … I didn’t know if I were Archie Leach, or Cary Grant, and I wasn’t taking any chances. … Another thing I had to cure myself of was the desire for adulation, and the approbation of my fellow man. It started when I was a small boy and played football at school. If I did well they cheered me. If I fumbled I was booed. It became very important to me to be liked. It’s the same in the theater, the applause and the laughter give you courage and the excitement to go on. I thought it was absolutely necessary in order to be happy. Now I know how it can change, just like that. They can be applauding you one moment, and booing you the next. The thing to know is that you have done a good job, then it doesn’t hurt to be criticized. My press agent was very indignant over something written about me not too long ago. “Look,” I told him. “I’ve known this character for many years, and the faults he sees in me are really the faults in himself that he hates.”
“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”
