#selves

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. ↗

— George Pataki

#brighter #dream #economic #economic future #families

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ↗

— George Pataki

#government #longer #people #responsibility #take

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#be prepared #cannot #defend #evil #free

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#cannot #emptiness #empty #hear #hearts

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#jazz #limit #many #personal #personal style

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#average #chief #companies #executives #feeling

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely