#rent

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

I see things completely differently now. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#differently #i #i see #now #see

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#handle #i #i can #i think #luckily

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#eyes #local #native #participant #scene

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. ↗

— Pink

#different #gaining #i #know #least

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#everyone #fact #happen #i #legs

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#brother #climb #come #crying #fall

I look at this game from a different perspective. ↗

— Pitbull

#different perspective #game #i #look #perspective

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#every #get #hard #individual #like