#well

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#companies #company #doing #every #go

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#could #dad #ham #his #i

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#college #decided #had #high #high school

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#because #bigger #challenge #got #harder

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. ↗

— George MacDonald

#done #duty #future #last #preparation

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ↗

— George MacDonald

#bursts #decay #fresh #husk #life

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman. ↗

— James MacArthur

#any #could #ever #everything #find

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #complex #concentration #different #different sort