#ask

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? ↗

— W. H. Auden

#asked #could #die #man #now

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#consultants #many #mind #respond #too

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#completed #currently #estimated #more #one-third

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us. ↗

— Alan Autry

#dedication #education #innovation #need #task

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#exciting #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#ask #dads #different #fathers #i

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i