#opening

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. ↗

— George Clooney

#building #career #films #opening #period

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#opening-lines #life

I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not. ↗

— Bob Considine

#i #i believe #i believe in #mail #month

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving. ↗

— Roselyn Sanchez

#come #i #improving #just #latin

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#each #final #football #game #home

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings. ↗

— Norton Simon

#like #me #openings #such #supermarket

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people. ↗

— John W. Snow

#big #clearly #continuing #early work #further

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#again #continue #doors #go #happen

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #built #business #companies #competition