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Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect m...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

...when it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it's only the person who's done wrong who's expected to pay?" Sister Agnes smiled, "Not even them, if they've accepted the Savior.

Tide and Tempest

For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. I’ll stay here. With you. By your side. I won’t leave.” “Promise?” “Vow.” I placed his hands gently on the piano. “I vow.

Toxic

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.

Understanding Self-Worth: Build Confidence and Self-Acceptance

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is i...

Utilitarianism

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

The Unspoken Rules of Love: What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You

Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk.

Wolf Hall

When things happen, live them. When they end, move on. Accept and enjoy bewilderment in the flow.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

Xazaqazax

When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at b...

Alafair Burke

Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea...

David Weinberger

I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the ...

Hunter Hayes

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

Lauren Alaina

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything she could give a man if he was brave enough to accept. Kiss by kiss, she was baring herself to the soul.

Romancing the Duke

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Hitch-22: A Memoir