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You don't reward reaction; you reward results. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#results #reward #you

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#argue #creation #current #does #exhaustion

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audience #audience #big #box #box office

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#aspects #british #certain #days #deeply

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#back #both #different #different sets #formal

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #business #business community #certain #change

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. ↗

— Chanakya

#always #am #answers #ask #before

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. ↗

— Chanakya

#difficulty #discharge #duty #friend #his

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. ↗

— Chanakya

#clouds #give #man #never #only

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#change #come #enough #events #foreseen