#z

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#book #comfortable #days #did #different

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#beginning #build #company #could #even

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#compromise #either #including #insult #retain

I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #amazing #believe #competing #defend

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#coaching #everything #failure #fertilizer #good

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. ↗

— Robert Plant

#clothing #cracking #ever #had #i

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. ↗

— Gary Player

#game #golf #haven #how #i

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. ↗

— Sophocles

#bear #child #directs #heaven #mighty

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion