#ling

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#killing #know #living #more #peace

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#discipline #eating #healthy #involved #pay

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#anything #because #close #close relationship #connection

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#calling #crooks #future #i #most

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises. ↗

— John Dobbin

#cool #excited #fox #get #internet

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#feeling #happen #heard #hemingway #himself

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#happen #important #make #memorable #mistakes

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#because #cool #every #every night #family