#quick

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#admit #best #get #improving #innovate

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#friendship #love #milo #niki #quicksilver

In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#imagination

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american people #aside #falls #people

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#bombed #construction #factories #had #heavily

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. ↗

— Eric Avery

#around #buck #considered #experience #first

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ↗

— Pericles

#cut #destroyed #easy #get #grow

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#how #people #poets #quickly #strange