#ms

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Charles Richter

#extraordinary #good #ordinary #ordinary situations #situations

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#job-searching #joblessness #jobs #middle-class #dreams

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#am #fall #fire #gun #him

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#baseball #change #i #i remember #ideas

We stand sideways. We sleep on floors in cramped resort hotel rooms. We get up early and go to sleep late. We've been mocked. We are relentless. We dream it, we make it, we break it, we fix it. We create. We destroy. We wreck ourselves day in and day out and yet we stomp that one trick or find that one line that keeps us coming back. We progress. We Snowboard. ↗

— burton snowboards

#dreams

Problems are the price you pay for progress. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#price #problems #progress #you

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away. ↗

— Michael Grant

#dreams

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know. ↗

— Don Rickles

#come #days #films #get #got

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#bored #get #god #i #knows