#often

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#big #company #dream #figure #get

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. ↗

— Michael Korda

#always #being #luck #make #mean

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #i #myself #often #quote

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. ↗

— Huston Smith

#art #difficult #difficulty #eases #ennobling

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#beings #forget #human #human beings #often

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#hotter #makes #often #than #thought

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. ↗

— John Lubbock

#breaking #down #hear #nine #often

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else. ↗

— Don Fraser

#everything #filled #gets #having #how