#din

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#been #building #business #every #great

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever? ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#day #ever #every #get #greatest

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#back #blast #bring #building #certainly

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team. ↗

— Libby Trickett

#goal #i #itself #make #me

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#bombers #challenges #children #conventional #faced

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#coordination #does #downside #equality #get

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#bone #career #dividing #first #friends