#ear

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#earlier #just #much #one day #other

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#get #here #i #like #lost

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#comparison #dream #get #him #i

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#care #collective #contagious #even #fear

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bid #create #denmark #feel #get

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. ↗

— Ice T

#beat #better #could #figured #first

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. ↗

— Ice T

#called #city #come #cop #day

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. ↗

— Ice T

#arms #bear #because #defense #form