#no

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing. ↗

— Art Rooney

#any #feels #i #i do #losing

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

#artistry #being-yourself #creativity #identity #self-knowledge

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#nostalgia #art

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#boy #cabin #earned #five #i

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#deal #endeavor #existence #facts #fancy

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. ↗

— Pete Rose

#do you know #game #get #go #gone

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#anybody #atm #banks #because #came

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. ↗

— Neil Postman

#technology #utilitarianism #age

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#ahead #because #catch #count #discovered