“I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.” ThinkingMayMadeImportantMillionsRichTalentNeededPoliticianSucceedFindingsSmartLuckDollarsOilProofHolesHillsBusinessmanParliamentDiggingVery SmartBecome RichGood PoliticiansDigging A Hole Author:Jean Chretien
“I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.” KnowsSchoolNeededFindingsMajorsTrainingJournalistI've LearnedEnglish Major Author:Michael Pollan
“F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.” WayGivingImportantPastGrowthAbilityFailingNeededLessonsFindingsBoxesCoreThis LifeWhere You AreLife ExperienceBetter WaysInvitingPast LifeImportant Lessons Author:Gary Busey
“In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.” GivingSeriousNeededFindingsMusicalDecadesI RealizedAssetsEquipmentMaking A LivingFinding Myself Author:Marc Edwards
“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.” IfsKnowsMenImportantMightWould BeDiesLeftFourDyingMissingHe ManNeededFindingsOrdinaryConcernedDecidedExpertsOne ManMeaninglessAppointmentsOrdinary ManKnocked Down Author:William McIlvanney
“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.” MadeGovernmentDifficultDecisionDealsCompanyProductsNeededFindingsPerceptionSellsImpressionSoftwareHardwareDisclosureSnowdenEncryption Author:Michael Morell
“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.” FeelsYearsWantedRecordsGrowingFansNeededBandFindingsLabelsLos AngelesRecord Labels Author:Theresa Wayman
“I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.” WritingFeltMy OwnWorryProduceNeededFindingsHollywoodEntrepreneurial Author:Larry Wilmore
“The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper honeymoon and do all the things a newlywed couple should do. I'm very proud to announce my brother's recent marriage. Watching him grow up into a man and finding love makes me the happiest brother alive. I know this is upsetting news, as it is for us, but we will continues to tour with a temporary replacement until he has situated himself in his new life.” KnowsMenLoveGivingShouldAgeGrowsBreakGrowing UpAliveWifeBrotherProudCoupleNeededBandFindingsNewsDecidedUpsetMy BrotherTemporaryNew LifeFinding LoveReplacementsHoneymoonNewlyweds Author:Gerard Way
“Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.” GivingMadeHardHelpingFormEasyAcceptingKeysNeededFindingsChainsBreathingLinksLocksOverlappingGiving Help Book:Lock and Key Source: Lock and Key
“You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'” KnowsImportantGrowthFailingNeededLessonsFindingsInvitingImportant Lessons Author:Gary Busey