#sf

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ↗

— Ben Okri

#authentic #capacity #create #endure #greater

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#give #given #god #had #i

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#biggest #biggest problems #feed #get #off

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#gentlemen #give #her #knows #little

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#been #chiefly #credited #excellent #fate

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#america #be strong #confident #could #defeat

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#best #even #good #history #ibm

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#business #business model #choose #critical #depending

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. ↗

— Carl Paladino

#albany #angry #attention #cesspool #conflicts

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us. ↗

— William S. Paley

#american #american public #doing #expect #give