It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in… — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking… — Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal.… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe.… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Great people in the United States have been disenfranchised.I'll give you an example, it has always been the way to do it,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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