#age

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. ↗

— John Mayer

#amazing #certain #did #doing #even

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. ↗

— John Mayer

#anything #day #demanding #fly #going

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. ↗

— John Mayer

#break #down #feels #having #i

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#business #engineers #fusion #management #product

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#because #comfort #comfort zone #day-to-day #giving

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on the verge of going to bed, she forced herself to take stock. Here you are, Hope, she told herself. What a beautiful moment. You may never again be here at this spot, enjoying the calm. This habit of hers, to acknowledge the immediate and elusive joy of the present, kept her sane. ↗

— David Bergen

#calm #children #comfort #nature #age

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. ↗

— Tacitus

#appreciated #best #character #develop #most

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#crucial #experience #giving #giving up #known

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anxiety #concepts #great #job #our