#fes

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together. ↗

— George Pataki

#america #goal #make #must #new

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#higher #higher level #level #mark #others

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. ↗

— Gary Ross

#beyond #directors #empowered #ever #experience

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. ↗

— Rand Paul

#become #children #doctors #grandfather #his

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#none #our #past #prodigy #profession

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.' ↗

— Guy Pearce

#awards #festivals #film #give #go

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#always #any #because #crying #deal

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#becomes #certainly #chef #choice #cook