#ions

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions. ↗

— Ian Botham

#communities #emotions #lot #release #together

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. ↗

— James Bovard

#american #american people #ancient #candor #come

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#delusions #happiness #happy #kind #man

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#because #break #create #each #ever

I am not the best because I said it, I am the best because I live it ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationshipstionships #education

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationships #education