#wing

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #company #considered #day-to-day #did

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#been #even #fearful #growing #growing up

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#art #art history #because #california #certain

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#afraid #always #been #being #being afraid

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain. ↗

— Jay Roach

#actually #anything #behind #better #contribute

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#expectations #framework #knowing #reader #write

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#almost #always #any #anyone #cancer

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#average #average people #consists #good #good leadership

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#average people #consists #good #how #management