#tho

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. ↗

— Mo Yan

#characters #convey #deep #his #novel

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#come #deeper #distance #even #exhilaration

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it. ↗

— Michael Kors

#ask #could #dinner #drinks #hard

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#become #companies #competitive #corporate #corporate america

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#challenge #chance #could #else #enormous

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#corporate #corporate america #everything #in my opinion #opinion

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#comes #i #i write #instrumentation #kind

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#although #before #calling #colors #commission