#event

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#disasters #ensure #event #franciscans #francisco

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#arnold palmer #compete #control #could #events

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#becomes #ceases #eventually #first #genre

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention #attract #authority #events #himself

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#bend #best #events #learn #people

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#able #across #any #ask #ceo

Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#analysis #event #literature

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#happily #her #mother #seventies #stroke

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win. ↗

— Al Lewis

#bother #i #i may not #may #me

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals