Shaun Donovan quotes

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
-- Shaun Donovan

#Waste #Crisis #Terrible

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.