#men

You’ve got to lick yourself into shape. Nobody can do it for you. The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for somebody else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to be mediocre. Please believe me, this is not harshness on my part: it is the harshness of the nature of the game that I am exposing to you. If you are going to deliver the real goods, you’ve got to do your own licking into shape. ↗

— Jack London

#mentorship #writing #art

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#been #beginning #could #i #if i could

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#freedom #important #important issue #issue #most

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#african #asian #brazilian #brazilian music #deliberately

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. ↗

— Linda Lingle

#election #generation #next #next election #often

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms. ↗

— Gary Locke

#chinese #investment #open #open arms #states

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#ill #mentally #more #population #seriously

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#department #good #here #high #high standard

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#broken #friendships #must #path #social