#in

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-same #this-business-of-art

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.' ↗

— Gary Larson

#batch #cartoons #days #every #felt

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#i #look #married #me #one thing

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it. ↗

— Steve Largent

#consumer #demand #respond #shaping

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing. ↗

— Steve Largent

#doing #hard #like #lot #really

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f ↗

— Gary Hamel

#paradox #strategy #business

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. ↗

— James Larkin

#arrangement #carried #degree #employers #gain