#account

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#father #his

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#been #marketing #over #people #studios

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#because #decided #directly #got #government

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will. ↗

— Harold Ford

#additional #below #born #child #contribution

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#could #existed #friends #get #i

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #gift #into #loneliness #people

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#accounts #again #asked #come #conclusion

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. ↗

— William Whewell

#only #phenomena #predict #test #theories