#phase

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#go #great #great organization #organization #phases

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. ↗

— Diane Lane

#drawing #grew #horse #horses #i

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. ↗

— Laura Linney

#go #goes #group #icy #lawyer

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across. ↗

— Eric Liu

#after #ate #bar #bars #big

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#any #back #connects #dismiss #distance

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#first phase #i #i do #intend #into

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#certain #direct #direct proportion #heart #increase

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#according #banners #behind #bourgeois #communist

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#growth #i #lawyer #phase #thought