#fr

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. ↗

— Billy Joel

#fool #i #less #man #more

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #canned #frozen #heard #lately

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#been #continues #deal #deficit #federal

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#back #creatures #excited #find #go

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#being #proven #scientists #very #wrong

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. ↗

— Elton John

#age #count #day #i #i love

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened. ↗

— Elton John

#doctor #frightened #frustrated #i #just

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening. ↗

— Elton John

#as far as #big #britain #catching #country