#stan

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#advantage #because #big #changes #everything

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options? ↗

— John Rowland

#any #classes #determine #environment #failing

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#decided #desire #had #i #stand-up

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #before #evil #existed #express

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#during #engineering #experience #forgot #gaining

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#connect #musician #never #people #songs

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#certain #coach #conflicts #could #happen

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in. ↗

— Dee Snider

#believe #believing #fighting #most #songs

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#humor #joke #oneself #sense #sense of humor

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume