#sf

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#education #example #good #good example #important

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ↗

— Primo Levi

#anyone #experiences #explosive #gossip #nature

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ↗

— Kurt Lewin

#achievement #aspiration #goal #his #his way

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#businesses #climate #countries #heading #imperative

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#high #however #human #never #passion

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#audience #ended #goes #i #i think

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

#consider #develop #endurance #everything #fine

This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#came #feel #going #group #here

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#also #alternative #conservative #could #criticism