#thing

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#important thing #little #most #poets #possible

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#back #culture #done #get #i

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#before #build #experience #first #i

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#floor #get #got #just #lot

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#foreign #foreign countries #get #go #good

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#bill #bill gates #edison #gates #intelligence

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#bill #careers #dave #good #had

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#conscience #fears #innocent #nothing