#topped

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. ↗

— Robert Plant

#apologizing #financial #great #having #i

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#became #before #colin #colin powell #even

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#age #barbed #barbed wire #borders #electrified

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there. ↗

— Andy Richter

#being #being funny #cause #creating #flowers

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#bobby #category #charlton #down #either

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun. ↗

— Romario

#been #everything #fun #i #lot

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw