#simi

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. ↗

— Robert Shea

#because #focus #generally #goes #lend

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#became #did #different #follow #i

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. ↗

— Nate Silver

#economists #economy #even #more #most

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #image #instead #just #reading

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #each #fire #lights #optimism

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. ↗

— George Stigler

#determining #efficient #enterprises #i #integration

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#acting #apparently #being #different #finding

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

#born #conventions #different #different points #exist

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#authorities #brother #chance #chinese #convinced