#mat

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#clubs #focus #i #jamming #mates

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#better #both #clever #craft #distraction

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Intimates are predestined. ↗

— Henry Adams

#predestined

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#crippled #dad #dramatic #harder #i

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message. ↗

— Scott Adams

#begins #computer #delete #e-mail #electrical

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#amidst #away #crush #dim #elements

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. ↗

— Kate Adie

#being #being used #first #freedom #gulf