Esperanza Spalding Quotes

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.

Esperanza Spalding

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeGrowthHistoryTimeMeProcess

Most Americans know we are in a mess, and as they look at Donald Trump, they believe he is the one leader who can reverse the downward death spiral of this nation we love so dearly.

Robert Jeffress

LoveLeaderDeathBelieveLookKnow

The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.

Matt Mullenweg

MistakeInfrastructureBuyingMade

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

Jeff Abbott

CharacterHeroFocusVillainBelieve

I never dreamed I would coach at UCLA. It was not one of those things in my coaching career I thought would happen. It's a tremendous blessing, and I'm going to make the most of it.

Steve Alford

BlessingThoughtCoachingCareer

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Robert Caro

LifeFeelYouNewSometimesGet

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

Rita Dove

HistoryWomanSchoolThinkPicture

I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.

Jovan Adepo

ChallengeMeOpportunitiesLookOwn

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

Jason Molina

MyselfMeGoWillWriteForce

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetrySpeechGoalUsGeneticOur

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

Brad Paisley

NashvilleReasonUniversityUpWhere

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Arsene Wenger

WorkGreatFootballMeTeamWin

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Alice Walker

PeopleStupidPlanningThoughtDown

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