Andrew Shaffer Quotes

It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.

Andrew Shaffer

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HomeWorldCriticismPressureMinds

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

Jodie Comer

TalentThinkYouActingTeach

One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

Jessica Jackley

GreatExperiencePeopleShopping

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Mem Fox

LifeChildCareWeekYearYoung

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Max Lerner

LifeAlwaysPayOffWhoMost

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

Josh Turner

WorldPressureFeelYouWrongBlood

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

David Walton

ResponsibilityLongCouldAvoided

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet

TreeBlueYellowColorPinkThink

The redefined M.D. is able to access the still, small voice that says I'm about to make a mistake - or I've just made one and I need to undo it before it's too late.

Brian Goldman

MistakeSmallVoiceLateNeedJust

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

DeathDieNeverTasteCowardsOnce

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

HumanityKnowWillAncestorsLine

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

Peter Saul

PeopleDoneWhyNeverReasonOut

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

Paul Watson

WaterCityMindSomeoneYouLook

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