“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything,… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Emotional Mastery, then, is the capacity to recognize and use your emotions effectively. It helps you embrace and rise above what you… — Bruce Elkin Copy Share Image
A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Chastity requires “an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything… — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
