#wards

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#ahead #always #better #goal #horizon

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#geared #growing #growing up #i #more

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#attitude #change #having #media #said

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#bailey #circus #fan #huge #i

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#bin #laden #now #will

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#american policy #because #been #change #drawing

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. ↗

— Barack Obama

#feel #future #going #i #myself

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuang Zi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishments #rewards