#so

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit. ↗

— Richard Marx

#i #never #song #thought #written

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room. ↗

— Richard Marx

#i #luther #many #never #room

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy. ↗

— Richard Marx

#best #bunch #case #enemy #getting

Let some people get rich first. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#get #people #rich #some #some people

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. ↗

— John Masefield

#coming #like #old #slow #solemn

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? ↗

— John Masefield

#being #coming #coming home #devilish #england

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#even #fear #fearsome #godlike #know

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#change #change the world #ends #exist #fundamentally

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#because #business #business owners #business people #cooking