If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul NewmanRead
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
Interpretation
Conflicts should be allowed to reach a resolution and ultimately be left behind.
Paul Newman suggests that feuds, like any part of life, should have their own journey β they can be intense and filled with emotion, but ultimately they should come to an end and be forgotten. This perspective promotes the idea of resolution and moving on from past conflicts rather than allowing them to linger indefinitely in our lives.
In practice
In a workplace discussion about resolving team conflicts, you might quote this to encourage moving forward.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kidβs play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if theyβre ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.
Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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