#nw

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. ↗

— Jewel

#door #focused #hours #i #left

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#breakthrough #buy #communications #compelling #computer

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#facilities #nationwide #people #place #process

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#die #life #middle #only #onward

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#described #downward #had #i #manager

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american idea #citizen #each #going #her

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#heart #how #i #leavenworth #much

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#greatest #greatest service #i #many #prevent