#ore

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bottom #car #could #down #drove

The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#willing #work #works

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#anything #climbed #discovers #else #fame

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#depended #gotten #judgment #made #more

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it. ↗

— Jim McKay

#art #craft #doubt #first #foremost

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#come #could #crumbling #especially #friendly

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. ↗

— Michael McKean

#few #friendships #job #makes #more

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#before #bit #college #congress #done

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later. ↗

— Michael Medved

#california #course #defeat #four #governor