#three

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#around #dissatisfied #doom #gave #i

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#block #find #go #inspiration #never

My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at Chester, which is also special, and she's just the apple of our eyes, really. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#apple #eight #ever #eyes #first

Pain has an odd way of expressing itself in the acts of business. No matter how many setbacks a leader might experience, there always seems to be a new opaque watermark of endurance testing, invisibly triggered for erratic combustion in each compounding decision. Every CEO in the world knows this, yet few have the good sense to walk away from the table when their cards are hot. Why win in Act Two when a comeback in Act Three gives you a longer biography? Ego is not so much about immortality as it is about demonstrating stately resistance to nightmarish attacks in public forums. Any good smack to the head is a continuity wake up call, or at least another invitation to be interviewed by Charlie Rose. ↗

— Ken Goldstein

#act-two #ceo #charlie-rose #pain #business

Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#last-lines #suicide #three #death

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #balance #because #being #between

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised. ↗

— John Sayles

#bring #camera #hope #i #just

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conduct #largest #life #our #three-fourths

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. ↗

— Don Adams

#even #forgotten #hour #i #i am

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#awards #day #discipline #during #emotion