#ill

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. ↗

— Bono

#end #in the end #kills #off #stasis

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. ↗

— Bono

#actually #away #because #enough #forgotten

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#fight #knows #victorious #who #will

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #illustrating #near #novel #simply

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#annihilation #confront #danger #deadly #fall

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ↗

— David Bowie

#am #amount #backing #everybody #extraordinary

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#army #enlightened #general #great #great results

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#back #back door #been #concept #door

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#air #around #case #created #currents

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#own #sincerity #spend #willingness