#pens

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ↗

#decide #first #first step #getting #indispensable

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. ↗

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#how #life #react #you

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. ↗

— William Barclay

#away #compensation #find #given #less

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#create #enjoy #happens #incredible #made

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#back #go #i #over #pens

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#hacker #happens #mindset #other #see

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#congress #congressman #expert #gay #happens

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things. ↗