#account

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me! ↗

— Gary Patton

#business-success #christianity #judgement #business

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. ↗

— Chris Ware

#been #certain #children #continually #dead

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

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#asking #call #chance #citizens #forever

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

— William Whewell

#only #phenomena #predict #test #theories

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. ↗

— Orville Wright

#air #balanced #being #center #control

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#communicating #creation #god #him #his

No agency is better than its account executives. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#agency #better #executives #than

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#accountant #example #field #for example #get

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#education #i #i think #part #problem