#sand

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. ↗

— Og Mandino

#apply #become #cries #efforts #grain

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#deaf #deaf people #i #jobs #over

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#coming #head #i #i always #keep

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#facing #had #him #i #sandy

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands. ↗

— Jack Markell

#called #cellular #company #employed #employees

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#air #art #beauty #clad #evening

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#face #launched #ships #thousand #topless

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#counters #eat #fire #lunch #out