#mean

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#day #few #hard #i #just

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#first #first time #heard #i #i remember

I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#back #because #direct #end #film

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#design #excited #i #meaning #unless

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #essential #finds #god #him

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#expressing #individual #know #life #meaning

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#deprive #i #ideas #means #merely

The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#blocks #cube #each #face #fact

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bartender #class #clerk #dad #financial