#ale

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female. ↗

— Katy Perry

#appreciate #cheesy #especially #female #freedom

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#better #forty #laundry #lost #loved

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ↗

— Tom Peters

#company #customer #labeled #least #momentarily

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

#career #challenging #economics #fascinating #i

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#giant #self-esteem #talent #where

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. ↗

— James Tobin

#graduate #great #i #i do #like

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#difficult #friends #guitar #had #i