#off

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile. ↗

— Chris Burke

#eye #giving #giving up #goal #i

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#having #ideas #making #making mistakes #mistakes

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. ↗

— Edward Burns

#been #business #i #longer #lot

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together. ↗

— Edward Burns

#any #competitive #deniro #hoffman #how

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. ↗

— Robert Burton

#make #mayors #officers #scholars #year

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu... ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#coffee #travel #beauty

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#coen #doing #even #films #hope

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #job #kinda #offered #out

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#carrier #certainly #glory #off #pilot

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts. ↗