#takes

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#beautiful #being #care #certain #copenhagen

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#guises #long #long time #many #notice

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#himself #known #man #mistakes #wise

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. ↗

— Larry Niven

#me #names #new #problem #right

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. ↗

— Larry Niven

#far #get #looking #mistakes #penalized

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#anger #angry #get #good #good loser

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#back #done #feel #filmmakers #future

AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. ↗

— Donald Norman

#how #i #make #mistakes #purpose

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back. ↗

— Greg Norman

#battle #come #couple #fundamental #game

No one ever takes my side. ↗

— Chris Noth

#side #takes