#attribute

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#analysis #attribute #best #business #column

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. ↗

— Major Taylor

#bicycle #degree #i #ideals #instilled

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#misattributed #perseverance #sanity #perseverance

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#characteristics #detection #detectives #facts #obviousness

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#maturity

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic. ↗

— Woody Allen

#humor #physics #religion #humor

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗