#pit

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reassurance #reassuring #respite #soothing #inspirational

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#capitalism #economics #freedom #liberty #politics

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #nurses #inspirational

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#believe #despite #everything #heart #i

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#attended #call #conference #day #expectations

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#batting #down #even #i #middle

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#available #basketball #could #drinks #everybody

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. ↗

— William Weld

#catalyst #government #healthy #high #high office

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan. ↗

— Robin Yount

#faced #i #never #nolan #nolan ryan

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far