#ten

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#blow #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #critique

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#game #go #go home #home #i

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#listening #men #silent #think #women

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#complicated #examined #extensively #had #history

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#distracts #ego #great #looking #man

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ↗