#iv

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#against #bureaucracy #forgive #god #going

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#adopted #automatically #courageous #driven #good

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. ↗

— Laura Riding

#circumference #criticism #draw #hollow #like

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#beautiful #fascinated #harmony #healthy #i

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#allow #beautiful #free #give #i

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. ↗

— David Riesman

#become #both #created #different #each

I like to be creative. ↗

— Rihanna

#i #like

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me. ↗

— Rihanna

#am #back #caught #enjoyed #get

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever