#tie

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #bodies #close #collective #contact

The very important thing you should have is patience. ↗

— Jack Ma

#important thing #patience #should #thing #very

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. ↗

— Barney Ross

#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all. ↗

— James MacArthur

#celebrities #complain #declare #drop #having

The principle part of faith is patience. ↗

— George MacDonald

#part #patience #principle

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#drama #dramatically #events #handle #i

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#connected #elected #ensuring #government #include

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#couple #early #even #friends #get