#iona

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#catalyst #choosing #direction #effectively #emotional

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#because #built #country #culture #day

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#great #look #make #people #perfect

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#could #espionage #existence #get #intelligence

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#life #little #prize #professional #professional life

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#based #between #conditions #connection #created