#rough

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#downturn #i #managed #packard #technology

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. ↗

— Curt Flood

#black #gone #hadn #i #lying

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conceive #estimates #false #great #i

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. ↗

— Henry Miller

#force #maintained #needs #through #whatever

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#been #couple #did #firm #got

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#agenda #becoming #best #breaking #compromised

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #develops #dots #drive #end