#ted

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#excellence #improve #offer #quality #unlimited

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#forever #novelists #poets #side

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#arabia #carpenter #first #first thing #i

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#doing #fantasy #god #nature #obligated

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States. ↗

— John Breaux

#appropriate #chinese #get #out #proper

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#anatomy #began #begun #cells #courses

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#else #happened #i #job #just

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ↗

— Buddha

#loved #more #persecuted #than #virtue

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. ↗

— Earl Browder

#capitalism #created #economic #economic growth #expansion

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#bummer #demoted #fame #get #point