#na

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#best #conflict #eternal #good #worst

Over the last several years, I've passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary cities, loser pay, border security, and the toughest Jessica's law in the entire nation against sexual predators. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#bill #border #border security #cities #entire

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity. ↗

— Susan Dey

#cutting #eating #else #end #everything

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#disappear #forever #hole #just #like

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#delivered #did #doing #feel #i

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#chance #characters #emotionally #gives #ill

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #experience #factory #i #i think

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers. ↗

— John Blair

#approach #between #camp #collective #consumers

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#because #call #child #cocky #driven