#selves

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today. ↗

— Jim Costa

#clear #deficit #fact #financial #find

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#business leaders #employers #initiative #leaders #need

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#advantage #allow #change #embrace #enjoy

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#best #children #choices #consumption #good

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#couple #find #found #had #i

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#appears #bit #chances #democracy #depend