#sf

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#collaborates #copy #draw #far #imagination

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. ↗

— Brad Delson

#fact #gulf #gulf stream #i #in fact

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#had #i #never #opportunity #over

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#also #because #doing #everything #i

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#common #common sense #desiring #distributed #each

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#fact #good #good manager #i #instrumental

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#every #every man #man #many #men

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them. ↗

— Celine Dion

#find #happy #i #i think #people

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. ↗

— Celine Dion

#am #business #i #i am #more

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#general #general rule #information #life #man