#ss

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. ↗

— Ryan Sypek

#because #close #college #conservatory #day

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cannot #forgive #himself #how #unhappy

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#bottom #despise #greatness

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#broken #easily #fortune #glass #glitter

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#business #global #most #profit

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#confirmed #history #liberate #only #oppressed