#ruthless

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. ↗

— David Remnick

#efficient #everybody #fast #i #i write

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#banking #behaves #behavior #capitalism #corners

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#chunks #could #destructive #each #fact

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#anymore #entrepreneurs #governments #harsh #running

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#butterflies #ruthless-trust #love

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anyone #bad #business #chance #disappear

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#cases #conducted #even #game #get

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. ↗

— James Woods

#because #destroy #gonna #i #job

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. ↗

— Mira Nair

#am #artifice #best #children #clothes

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#back #because #character #chord #dallas