#ife

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ↗

— Douglass North

#been #came #coast #college #company

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students. ↗

— Douglass North

#college #competition #deeply #early #early life

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. ↗

— Oliver North

#compromised #create #draw #excitement #exciting

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#experiences #for the people #job #life #life experiences

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife. ↗

— Anne Northup

#i #kids #mother #really #six

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. ↗

— Edward Norton

#bent #i #life #my life #point

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. ↗

— Edward Norton

#generation #having #life crisis #my generation

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #brings #contact #end #getting

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#down #go #good #got #life