#r

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#clear #extinction #however #individual #nations

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. ↗

— Sam Peckinpah

#fall #find #i #love #oh

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#cannot #conditioned #consensus #day #force

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum. ↗

— Neil Peart

#got #out #problem #take #you

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#kiss #simple #art

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. ↗

— Neil Peart

#drumming #gave #get #into #later

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept. ↗

— Frances Hardinge

#twitter-quotes #twitter

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. ↗

— Neil Peart

#condition #even #future #get #life