#yours

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#air #different #every #every time #find

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#balance #between #find #need #people

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. ↗

— Alva Noto

#choose #go #inevitably #limit #off

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#crowd #even #isolate #want #you

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#job #keeping #lesson #perspective #seriously

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#champagne #enjoy #having #host #over

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#around #because #better #fun #got

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#better #creative #creative genius #first #genius

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#creates #equation #half #i #joined

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#bible #book #creator #creature #ending