#ness

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. ↗

— William Penn

#gratify #must #never #thou #thy

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#anybody #business #extremely #i #know

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#business #credit #lend #lending #money

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. ↗

— Blaine Lee

#exercises #himself #honor #inside #leader

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. ↗

— Blaine Lee

#best #beyond #conductors #great #great leaders

The devil's name is dullness. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#dullness #name

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#companies #going #great #i #lot

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#business #free #go #i #just

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good. ↗

— Adam Levine

#away #eyes #good #many #mean