#fire

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

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#caught #egg #fire #full #into

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#burn #completely #good #leaving #like

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#anything #chrysler #dumb #fired #getting

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it. ↗

— R. Kelly

#about #comes #definitely #depth #determined

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is. ↗

— R. Kelly

#blaze #different #fire #fireman #got

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#between #commences #contradiction #country #exchange

Why couldn't you turn into a fireball when we were on the same team! ↗

— Pittacus Lore

#funny #humor #nine #funny

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#be patient #deal #every #eye #fire