#making

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#bargain #discontented #excellent #frame #him

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#any #backgrounds #because #big #big movie

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#championships #doing #i #i can #live

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#being #big #enjoys #involved #key

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#accepting #because #decisions #had #handouts

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#life #live #living #making #making a living

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it. ↗

— J. Lee Thompson

#camera #digital #even #film #filmmaking

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

#clearing #defeat #generals #making #move

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#end #enter #experts #fifth #grade

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#century #challenge #change #climate #climate change