#disc

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#disconcerting #forget #goes #induce #last

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#come #congress #discuss #evening #family

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.' ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#attitude #back #board #cannot #career

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#hypocrisy #polite #word

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#better #discontented #never #none #reach

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#discuss #i #like #phil #really

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#been #books #cases #discussion #good

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#best #destroy #discouraged #get #give