#ka

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#better #get #hire #leave #look

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#during #easter #holidays #ice #jewish

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. ↗

— Will Oldham

#despise #figure #i #make #okay

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. ↗

— Clive Owen

#best #come #directors #i #i think

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#avoiding #birds #cage #cause #danger

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#college #degree #got #i #kansas

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#being #books #dark #depressing #i

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#educating #expected #grew #home #i

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#female #how #i #i came #investigator

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#early #five #hundred #kansas #miles