#sin

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#any #being #business #conformist #get

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#dealing #financial #homes #i #i can

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#always #been #cast #deposit #ear

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#old #same #since #thing #want

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#better #cannot #distaste #leave #love

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#because #business #came #certain #demeanor

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bigger #guys #had #led #led zeppelin

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#black #black and white #build #inside #moral

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. ↗

— Roland Gift

#big #birmingham #early #growing #growing up

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#blood #death #depressing #emphasis #i