#or

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #blessed #fortunately #had #i

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

When I was very young the world was flat and colorless but as I grew older it acquired shape, first round, then a sphere and as I grow old it is infinite in all its dimensions and scope. ↗

— Sesame April

#evolution #life #world #age

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#becoming #complicated #composer #could #doing

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#era #i #i see #lots #see

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #groups #mistakes #right-and-wrong #imagination

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comics #writing-punk #inspirational

Sleeping with a man half your age can be exhausting, but if it's too much for him you can always find a younger man. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#older-women #age

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #change-the-world #improvement #strategy #success-self-improvement