#ale

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#certain #cooperate #heard #i #longer

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gone #got #had #how #i

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#computer #computers #decades #describe #enthusiasts

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#given #god #perceiving #reveal #secretly

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#before #came #coming #conquest #could

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. ↗

— Moby

#become #being #believe #effective #good

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#discipline #dramatic #hard #hard work #i

I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#dumb #everyone #get #get together #had

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#depends #find #length #lies #life