#iced

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. ↗

— William Banting

#editor #further #i #individual #insignificant

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#goes #great #greatness #half #heroes

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#colors #future #general #good #happiness

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. ↗

— Wendy Carlos

#dig #hadn #i #into #lifetime

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#evolution #individual #may #meeting #much

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#i #january #law #lawyer #loved

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#america #bars #began #eagles #easy

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#anyone #ever #faster #going #idiot