#lose

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team. ↗

— Chuck Noll

#football team #lose #pleasant #team #whole

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creative #creative life #fear #life #live

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#discoveries #infinitely #knit #made #more

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ask #before #close #get #night

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#believe #closely #error #great #mediums

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#basis #best #branches #colour #equal

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in. ↗

— Robert Plant

#could #elusive #get #gets #had

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. ↗

— Robert Plant

#closed #eyes #having #i #long