#selves

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find. ↗

— James A. Michener

#fail #find #journey #make #matter

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#broken #dwellings #far #fields #had

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't. ↗

— Merton Miller

#delude #information #into #just #know

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#adult #child #convince #every #gradually

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#carve #character #essence #i #i think

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#challenge #easy #go #never #new

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. ↗

— Mario Monti

#bound #breakup #decisions #deeper #europe

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #folly #go #houses #into