#spend

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. ↗

— John Strachan

#contests #expense #foundation #frequently #glory

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#blame #capable #energy #enough #excuses

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. ↗

— George Strait

#arizona #been #canada #deer #good

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#lives #out #percent #playing #spend

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat. ↗

— James Meade

#enjoying #essays #group #indeed #intellectual

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. ↗

— Ross Perot

#amazed #companies #customers #face #how

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#after #any #debt #disrespectful #evening

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. ↗

— Sam Walton

#boss #chairman #company #customer #down

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#between #dark #fear #happen #hard

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#daydreaming #develop #drawing #get #going