#ruthless

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#artist #ruthless #art

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#success-strategies #women-s-strength #business

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#competitive #driven #hate #i #i can

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#carefully #dragging #give #homeland #jews

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#enough #i #ruthlessly #think #waged

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#clashing #could #crushing #discords #feel

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#hold #joe #man #mccarthy #put

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