#ang

To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #lethargic #reading #success #change

Their world has changed overnight ...Even after the trial, after the verdict -- whatever it might be -- life would never be the same again. That was the truth of murder. ↗

— Marian Babson

#truth #change

When I see a poor person I think of me, and then I think, maybe I should pay my clones for all the work they do for me. Then I think, nah, they’re only slaves. Through my clones, I am a slave to myself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clones #funny #humor #poor #slaves

there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#fishing #wife #change

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#war #change

It’s hard to type with gloves on. It’s also hard to type with just an erection. It’s basically like typing with one finger, and in my case, a pinky. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #penis #typing #change

Theo named his son Theology. But his son changed it to The O to honor his dad, Orafoura. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#honor #orafoura #theology #change

There was no control except the "mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history, electronic history, those who said later that Boldon broke the path. It was just as important to watch him stretch and wheel around the last notes or to watch nerves jumping under the sweat of his head. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#jazz #new-orleans #change

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#simple-living #change

Man will never reach the higher wisdom, If he can't yet accept the pain of change. ↗

— Toba Beta

#higher #painful #wisdom #change