#nin

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basketball #before #being #ever #good

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. ↗

— Jim Evans

#best #cities #considered #florida #great

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#entertaining #i #left #me #might

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#actress #because #been #complain #got

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#being #bit #else #ever #hate

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#film #happening #i #i do #listen

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#art #gut #head #heart #listening

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#boom #bust #dot-com #end #i