#shed

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#building #company #difficult #easy #established

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#collecting #could #create #fulfilling #i

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.' ↗

— Michael Arad

#civil #engineer #find #forward #i

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. ↗

— David Attenborough

#bangkok #beyond #getting #got #hell

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#begin #finished #half #remain #still

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. ↗

— David Axelrod

#catastrophe #class #ditch #drove #economy

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it. ↗

— Max Azria

#enough #finished #god #hope #house

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#christianity #classification #distinguished #good #knowledge

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#adjustment #difficult #failure #harmonize #important