#ears

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#away #drag #ears #heels #manage

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#becomes #before #business #invested #knows

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#looking #lot #outside #spent #years

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#decent #dollars #earned #eisner #first

Avarice is the vice of declining years. ↗

— George Bancroft

#declining #vice #years

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you ↗

— Deborah Wiles

#inspirational #inspirational

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago. ↗

— Rajendra Prasad

#cannot #did #i #know #stuff

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all. ↗

— Eric West

#away #been #best #called #depressed