#spur

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#danger #fear #fears #gives #prevent

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks. ↗

— John Doerr

#broadband #clear #compelling #content #economic

A good horse should be seldom spurred. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#horse #seldom #should #spurred

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#creation #economic #economic prosperity #half #job

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#because #being #cause #comedy #confined

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#before #draft #faster #few #i

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#fact #hope #industry #spur

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ↗

— David Mallet

#courted #deeds #deserve #despises #fame

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#danger #fear #fears #gives #prevent