#facing

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#base #customer #customer base #exactly #facing

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#cheque #different #different attitude #facing #government

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back. ↗

— John Hart

#facing-reality #jaded #faith

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city. ↗

— Michael Arad

#brooklyn #city #experience #facing #feel

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#five #nothing #orchestras #played #some

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#facing #global #global warming #harm #idea

As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

#administration #against #attack #attempting #attention

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #country #disaster

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#companies #crisis #doctors #facing #give

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#been #degree #direction #facing #happy