#vent

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#day #errors #event #every #every day

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#asks #ever #inventor #other #people

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#like #media #sounds

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquiring #china #designs #equipment #gave

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#career #comics #form #i #reinvent

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#events #finger #having #listening #live

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far