A Quotes
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“As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.”
“As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.”
“As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.”
“As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.”
Source: Eureka
“As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.”
“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.”
“As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.”
“As an individual, you know what you are good at and what you're not good at, so over time as you are hiring, you should be hiring for the skill requirements as the rule, but you should also be thinking, "What am I less good at?" and knowing you need to hire those people to create a stronger team. Different personalities are good at different things, but as a leader and and entrepreneur, it often has to start with you and building around your shortcomings.”
“AS AN INFJ I RESPECT PURE INTENTIONS OVER RIGHT AND WRONG.
I RESPECT THE AUTHENTIC OVER THE ACCOMPLISHED.”
“As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you makes your choice!” That may be the most American sentence ever written.”
Source: First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
“As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.”
“As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.”
“As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.”
Source: The Tiger in the House
“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”
Source: Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi
“As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.”
Source: The next one hundred years: shaping the fate of our living earth
“As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.”
“As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.”
“As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.”
“As an internationalist, I feel that it is simply my duty to fight for Borneo, as it is my duty to fight for Afghanistan or for Venezuela. If someone is ready to support my work and my struggle, I'll be grateful. If no one will, I'll do it on my own, somehow! Attempts to destroy our planet do not wait. Why should I?”
“As an introvert explorer, your soul’s goal is to come home to itself.”
Source: The Year of the Introvert: A Journal of Daily Inspiration for the Inwardly Inclined
“As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?”
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.”
Source: Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
“As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.”
“As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.”
“As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.”
“As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.”
“As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.”
“As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.”
“As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.”
“As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.”
“As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.”
“As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.”
“As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.”
“As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.”
“As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.”
“As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
“As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.”
“As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?”
“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.”
“As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.”
“As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.”
“As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'”
“As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.”
“As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.”
“As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.”
“As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.”
“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”