#los

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#close #crisis #either #most #opportunities

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. ↗

— David Mamet

#battle #half #losing #many #surprise

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. ↗

— David Mamet

#philosophy

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#believe #book #class #class struggle #closed

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#been #behind #bothering #closed #decisions

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#because #been #better #blair #closely

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#bad #close #concept #difficult #family

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. ↗

— Barry Mann

#close #come #enough #faked #get

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#diet #except #guess #i #like

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. ↗

— Horace Mann

#breathes #divine #found #light #lost