#path

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#almost #always #constant #down #like

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing. ↗

— John Dyer

#across #all day #amusing #assume #day

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#american jobs #energy #jobs #more #path

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#country #definitely #enough #everything #follow

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#how #kindness #little #only #realizes

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. ↗

— Franz Boas

#been #case #deviate #every #exceeding

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party. ↗

— Franz Boas

#antipathy #barriers #down #enough #feeling

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. ↗

— David Geffen

#already #apathy #colleagues #friends #growing

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#lead #many #only #path #practice