#occasions

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#beaten #dodging #few #getting #guys

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anything #attention #democrats #disagree #forfeit

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#great man #made #make #man #meet

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#even #i #many #my time #near

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#common #extraordinary #great #make #men

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future. ↗

— Eric Massa

#friend #future #good #good friend #i

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#being #comes #decision #did #down