#works

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#economic #freedom #general #general public #go

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#luck #one thing #out #sort #thing

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication. ↗

— Donal Logue

#before #changed #cool #couple #ever

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#excuses #finished #gonna #i #like

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#classics #literature #modern #newest #oldest

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#bring #concerts #connect #each #festivals

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#got #haven #i #interest #lack

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married. ↗

— Anna Magnani

#get married #got #married #now #she