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More time leads to more doubt. More doubt leads to more anxiety. More anxiety makes the decision fall apart

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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Steve Jobs

Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.

Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities

You were gone when you first saw her. When she first opened her mouth and spoke to you it was there already and you know it. Since you have it and you never thought you would have it, there is no sense throwing dirt at it, when you know what it is and you know

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

Put $50,000 in the right hands and you can test battery acid as skin lotion.

The Constant Gardener

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

Quentin Crisp, on fashion

I shouldn’t have teased you like that. I shouldn’t have let you think there was a way out of this.

Hayley Stark, Hard Candy

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong

Adriana Lima – on fashion

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, 1974