#pass

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#growing-older #passage-of-time #tempus-fugit #age

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#enough #give #job #like #love

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#i #i love #level #love #never

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#skating #snowboarding #spawn

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#having #look #men #other #out

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#am #feebleness #feeling #horrified #i

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service. ↗

— Tony Hsieh

#asked #company #customer #customer service #even

He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance ↗

— Andrea Levy

#dreams

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#arise #assurance #days #desires #extremity