#course

They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#course #hear #rest #sex #wanted

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ↗

— Joan Didion

#been #course #flawless #great #hotels

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#every #lights #passing #set #ship

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#course #end #figure #going #got

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#creep #faulkner #flesh #interested #making

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#answering #attach #attached #attitude #course

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#back #comment #conception #conscious #conscious decision

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#course #culture #fitting #i #into

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#earth #going #humans #into #just

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#course #discussion #does #himself #his