#inner

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #brought #chip #dinner #dinner party

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? ↗

— LeBron James

#grow #grow up #household #humbling #i

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#dogma #drown #else #follow #follow your heart

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#dinner #dinner parties #go #i #i write

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#congo #cyprus #dinner #i #lunch

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #general #good #greek #his