#our

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live. ↗

— Bob Riley

#expense #freedom #had #hoped #hour

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. ↗

— Bob Riley

#children #classrooms #come #employee #first

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ↗

— Pat Riley

#attitude #best #challenges #constantly #effort

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ↗

— Pat Riley

#guarantees #lose #loss #permission #yourself

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired. ↗

— Terry Riley

#get #hours #i #just #long

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking. ↗

— Terry Riley

#dissolution #everybody #going #important #important point

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#being #difficult #human #human being #last

The only journey is the one within. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#only #within