#hand

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#comes #elbows #every #hands #hungry

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#aggressive #control #fate #fates #feel

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#handle #hold #smooth #take #things

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #end #ever #everyone #experience

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#end #get #hands #i #into

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#good-looking #handsome #i #myself #never

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#better #case #claims #economic #economic forces

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hands #happens #life #own #take

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively