#top

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent

...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#experience

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#ceo #consultants #help #how #managers

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away. ↗

— Nik Kershaw

#away #chords #could #else #fighting

And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#continue #country #created #democratic #did

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. ↗

— Imran Khan

#aid #better #colonialism #country #death

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy. ↗

— Kimbra

#good #haven #i #lead #might

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding. ↗

— Richard King

#exhaustion #financially #funds #i #i am

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#coaches #cup #dealing #energy #five