#own

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#being #career #case #corporate #get

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#benefits #comedian #i #known #stuck

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#districts #england #large #manufactures #morality

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#because #convinced #definite #direct #else

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. ↗

— Jena Malone

#down #find #matter #small #strip

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#because #believing #could #i #i tried

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ↗

— Og Mandino

#art #benefactor #better #crown #does

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#aspects #became #began #best #bring

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. ↗

— Bam Margera

#fall #getting #how #hurt #just