James Reason Human Error Quotes

#1. Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Peter Drucker

#2. Cooking is not a mystery.

Edward Espe Brown

#3. Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
I cannot, but I am not content.

William Butler Yeats

#5. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#6. Dont stop when you are tired, stop only when you are done

MINE

#7. She felt as if, while working and sleeping and working and sleeping, she'd aged so rapidly that she'd passed Emile and caught up with her parents.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

Hillary Clinton

#9. The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Kathy Najimy

#11. Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

Thomas Merton