#used

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#beyond #caused #control #distinguish #essential

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#attempt #been #change #decision-making #desire

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#been #being #could #further #i

I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#carry #door #get #go #had

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#career #deserves #dignity #every #had

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. ↗

— Ron Silver

#dinner parties #get #go #i #invited

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#before #business #courses #ethics #ever

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life. ↗

— Peter Singer

#broader #ethics #focused #how #i