#con

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship. ↗

— Emily Watson

#concentrate #darkened #had #i #interesting

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence. ↗

— John B. Hood

#banner #beneath #coming #content #first

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#accept #around #convince #din #doing

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#addiction #addictions #addictive #another #first

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#shocks #today #tomorrow

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#buy #economy #ford #global #global economy

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#bigger #control #fun #girlfriend #had

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ↗

— George Santayana

#change #conception #consumption #currency #daily

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. ↗

— John Thorn

#baseball #before #carnage #condemned #falling

He conquers who endures. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#endures #who