#isi

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#because #become #cats #enjoy #home

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. ↗

— William Hague

#before #blocs #centres #civilisation #decision-making

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#even #getting #lose #promising #start

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job? ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#decisions #how #important #important decisions #job

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#difficult #felt #great #i #i can

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#formless #isolated #law #mass

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#before #discard #good #i #i can

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#character #comfortable #everything #feels #hit

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#change #crisis #greater #lesser #people

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#greatness #illusions #same #visions