#takes

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#does #failed #much #succeeded #takes

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#congress #control #extremely #greater #gulf

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#announced #because #expected #i #keep

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ↗

— Dwight Morrow

#blame #credit #drought #must #opponents

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#children #days #earthquake #else #forget

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#mistakes

It takes a lot to become a foster parent. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#foster #lot #parent #takes