#tract

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#first #friends #heart #learn #live

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#business #daydream #distracted #i #i am

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice. ↗

— Stan Getz

#dedicated #distractions #emerson #full #had

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. ↗

— David Gill

#contract #designed #issue #retirement #rolling

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#days #drag #early #had #head

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#hold #how #knows #noble #people

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #distraction #early #hard #i