#pro

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#change #dwell #i #life #make

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

#approach #become #committed #excellence #gathering

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. ↗

— Robert Metcalfe

#check #contractor #day #each #own

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet. ↗

— Debbie Meyer

#close #day #either #goals #had

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#accelerator #amateur #approach #asset #been

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#construction #group #i #improved #increase

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#because #become #everything #expect #friends

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#acting #amadeus #appeared #audience #broadway

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#both #christmas #costly #deal #enjoy

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race