If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
William H. McRaven
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.
Jimmy Smits
TimeSchoolI AmFunLooking Back
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
HappinessSocietySecurityComfort
You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
Andreas Schleicher
EducationMoneyQualityYouStudent
I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
Robert Smith
CareWantRockNeverWhereCure
She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.
Michael Ende
FearDayPastMove OnImportantShe
People with a mental illness aren't mentally weak. In fact, many of them are incredibly strong. And just like everyone else, they possess the ability to create positive change in their lives.
Amy Morin
PositiveChangePeopleStrongCreate
I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?
Tracy Morgan
TrialsThroughGoneHereSureOK
I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.
Tom Holland
SchoolRugbyWhereBalletPlayed
I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.
Ross Lynch
WantMoreGetElectricSounds
I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.
Miranda Otto
RisksSayingFeelYouGoNew
So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.
Denny Rehberg
CollegeYouGoOutWelfareBecause
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
Brian Eno
ArtReligionPeopleThinkSurrender
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