#pa

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg. ↗

— Jack Klugman

#career #day #felt #horse #i

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #elements #feelings #instead #merely

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#companies #down #ealing #films #i

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#actually #being #dream #game #going

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#learn #mistakes #must #past #past mistakes

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#everything #got #hurt #i #much

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! ↗

— Bobby Knight

#ass #bury #critics #down #earth

The pain reflected in a mother’s eyes noticing how much her son suffers brings us to fight to give wellness that allows us of thinking and hoping for a hopeful life and a better future. El dolor de una madre reflejado en sus ojos al ver el sufrimiento de su hijo nos lleva a luchar por dar un bienestar que permita tener una esperanza de vida para un futuro mejor. La douleur apparente dans les yeux d’une mère en voyant la souffrance de son fils nous amène a lutter pour obtenir et donner un bienêtre qui permette d’avoir une espérance de vie pour un meilleur future. ↗

— Paul Chehade

#food-bank #homeless #miami #nonprofit #paul-chehade

For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pygmy #religion #super-markets #food