Jeanne C. Stein quotes

Jeanne C. Stein quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.”
-- Jeanne C. Stein

Source : Jeanne C. Stein (2013). “Blood Bond”, Penguin

#People Quotes #Retrospect Quotes

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”
“The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!”
“I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.”
“It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.”
“No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.”

Source : Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press
“Experience is retrospect knowledge.”

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