#using

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. ↗

— Gary Numan

#causing #child #grammar #grammar school #happiest

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#business #closed #concerned #connor #door

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cherish #comprehensive #creation #dared #education

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#any #become #becomes #children #cruelty

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#chance #help #helpful #need #refusing

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#idea #me #recognising #strengths #them

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#affects #anything #better #constantly #emphasizing

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#day #everyone #keep #least #make

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#came #change #collapsed #denser #got