Kathryn Schulz Quotes

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• We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what…
• Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
• If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.
• The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
• If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
• I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time,…
• The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
• Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
• To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover…
• The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
• If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them…
• And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around…
• Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.
• We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we…
• Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
• Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
• The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
• I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder…

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