#nit

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #george-b-mcclellan #leadership #united-states-congress #war

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity. ↗

— Oleksandr Zhuravliov

#because #believe #christianity #communist #form

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#anthony #beat #davis #definitely #goals

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #buy #consistently #drop #fans

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. ↗

— John Piper

#faith

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#create #customers #does #done #job

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#federation #forward #i #look #planets

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. ↗

— Larry Page

#better job #company #contributing #doing #everybody