#sigh

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#difficulty #early #economics #getting #i

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#customs #every #evident #fail #insight

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#discoveries #empathy #essential #genuine #grow

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#came #closely #electronics #employment #engineer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#always #made #means #men #nowadays

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#am #appearing #art #believe #boxing