#form

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#arduous #form #friendship #leisure #taxing

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#assimilate #different #different view #information #leader

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#continue #europe #fell #i #love

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. ↗

— Alan Alda

#assumed #badly #because #box #corner

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#ancient #anyone #beautiful #beautiful places #buildings

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#comedy #done #enough #everything #feel

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#i #i think #think #uniforms #winning

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#enjoy #form #forms #i #into

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#any #fight #forms #fundamentalism #happy