#make

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous. ↗

— Robert Greene

#power #power-of-words #powerful #practices #quotes-i-love

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. ↗

— George A. Smith

#make #man #often #position #trifle

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#attempt #been #civilization #conquest #duty

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#exposed #fast #information #life #makes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#make #reality #unbearable #without #world

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that. ↗

— Pat Travers

#ago #albums #along #battles #doing

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#make #rules #works

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artists #create #enormous #enough #fears