#cat

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#chastity #could #delayed #dull #experience

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#childhood #forgive #go #how #i

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion. ↗

— William Perry

#down #duplicate #else #everyone #fashion

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#charitable #donations #educational #efforts #go

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#conferred #engaging #even #gratification #having

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ↗

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything. ↗

— Tom Peters

#everyone #everything #panacea

This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability. ↗

— David Petraeus

#against #al-qaeda #areas #capability #continue

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. ↗

— David Petraeus

#computing #connected #controlled #embedded #energy