#con

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. ↗

— Goran Persson

#alive #continue #dialogue #european #european union

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#choose #concern #ever #life #my life

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#economist #expert #happen #know #predicted

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#beholder #competence #contact #eye #eye of the beholder

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#break #connected #connection #day #dear

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

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. ↗

— Tom Peters

#change #constant #excellence #excellent #firms

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#conflicts #countries #i #many #military