What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhere you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
JIMI HENDRIX -
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.
BARRY LOPEZ -
You should watch what you say to people.
BOB BENSON -
Enthusiasm is something so positive.
CARINE ROITFELD -
Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.
AKHENATEN -
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
STEPHEN FRY -
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
T. HARV EKER -
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO -
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUS -
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.
RICK RIORDAN -
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
BILL TOOMEY -
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters, nobody except me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE