#icing

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#approach #benefit #group #just #needs

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#direction #favour #follow #history #noticing

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #before #developed #first #further

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins ↗

— Margaret Cousins

#voicing-it #change

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ↗

— Will Harvey

#dead #just #practice #practicing #retiring

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#america #being #enticing #family #go

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#been #better #get #i #injuries

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #different #fix #get #look

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance. ↗

— Heinrich Neuhaus

#piano #practicing #art

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dancing #did #done #following #future