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• You're at a level where you can only afford one mistake.
  The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed....
• Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground.
  You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable....
• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked.
  It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire...
• When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
  -- Fred Astaire...
• The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.
  -- Nicolaide...
• The higher you go the more dependent you become on others.
• Yell out that you love them at the top of your lungs .
  .. and don't worry if their parents are right there....
• Kid: Paper or plastic? Selma: You decide. [looks down] So, wearing a belt, are you?
  Kid: Uh-huh. Selma: No suspenders for you. Kid...