#because

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ↗

— George Lucas

#achievement #always #because #exactly #goals

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in. ↗

— George Lucas

#business #crazy #days #everybody #film

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#cares #different #else #idea #interesting

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#because #bore #dull #frankly #hold

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#because #efforts #fail #i #i am

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#define #died #enemy #helped #i

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. ↗

— Jack Ma

#business #calculate #cards #good #i

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#because #bread #bring #home #i

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#be careful #because #blessed #careful #different

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting