#kin

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us. ↗

— Jack McDevitt

#thought-provoking #love

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically. ↗

— Eugene B. Sledge

#military #okinawa #peleliu #war #wwii

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

#creativity #making-money #business

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. ↗

— John Green

#humor #thought-provoking #death

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#inspirational #leadership #lean-in #motivational #risk-taking

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#bull-rider #cf #grief #horses #karen

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#away #enjoy #exactly #feel #get

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves. ↗

— William Bell Riley

#even #james #king #men #never

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#lack #more #people #society #speaking

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#love