#cult

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#building #company #difficult #easy #established

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#exciting #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#customs #discerned #faculties #fortunate #fortune

In France they don't think I'm difficult. ↗

— David Bailey

#france #i #think

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#difficult #easy #getting #notice #sit

If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#diet #nutrition #organic #change

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#accountability #before #comes #companies #criticism