#tan

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. ↗

— Don Bluth

#animation #artistic #computer #line #opposite

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#form #i #i think #job #much

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #importance #strategy #supreme #thus

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. ↗

— Don Bluth

#action films #animated #anything #department #film

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#before #belief #better #compressed #even

My girlfriend asked if I wanted to go see a politician give a speech on “Ethics”, and I said, Sure, I might enjoy a bit of stand-up comedy.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ethics #funny #humor #politicians #politics

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#city #enter #further #gaze #heaven