#ten

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. ↗

— An Wang

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I want to invent a word that means “to stand tall, even when you feel small and frail.” That word, as I envision it, will be “Buqz” (pronounced Bucks). And then, with my newly created word, I can formulate a sentence that ties the record for the shortest sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. That sentence is, “Flyph Wax, a starving midget jock, buqz. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#invent #sentence #word #funny

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ↗

— Alice Miller

#better #child #empathy #even #grows

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. ↗

— Alice Miller

#beatings #children #give #humiliated #humiliation

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#being #character #ever #finest #happening

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team. ↗

— Bode Miller

#am #anyone #been #better #consistently

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#best #broadcasting #down #fun #had

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#because #conservatives #games #liberals #most