#out

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#around #dinner #go #i #leave

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#ever #men #participating #side #struggle

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.' ↗

— David Johansen

#continue #cut #even #exist #feeling

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#friendly #immediate #large #live #maintain

I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college. ↗

— JoJo

#actual #album #apply #attend #before

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#always #comes #concentrate #could #enter

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #been #calling #comes #each

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#company #complete #consumer #customer #dna

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #bedrock #charisma #company #contribute