#sf

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#capital #come #doing #dysfunctional #elected

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #lied #like #lying #magic

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cycling #cyclist #friend #hey #i

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful. ↗

— Chuck Daly

#important #important thing #mike #players #right

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture. ↗

— James Daly

#bits #coverage #culture #either #focus

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#assessment #back #calculations #came #device

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#changed #communication #heart #how #i

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #audiences #automatically #compliment #greatest

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#go #person #pick #put #successful

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. ↗

— Ken Follett

#draft #easiest #every #first #fun