#am

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. ↗

— John Dryden

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#economic #enterprise #enterprises #especially #independence

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

#aspire #between #certain #completely #far

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. ↗

— David Duchovny

#different people #every #game #games #go

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#classical #classical music #concert #crying #like

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. ↗

— James Patterson

#family

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love! ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#life #life-lessons #love #family

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#mothers #family

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#children #energy #enjoy #everything #feel