#cap

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#colors #demonstrate #how #i #important

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#attention #barbarians #because #closer #course

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#capable #living #long #person

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas. ↗

— John Anderson

#capable #elected #end #good #good ideas

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions. ↗

— Primo Angeli

#client #decisions #enough #good #graphics

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #capital #company #early #i

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#capable #carry #heart #less #loving