He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
Recitation: by Male by Female
At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.
Jennifer McMahon
GoodCharacterHeartConflictStory
Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.
Amy Purdy
LifeTimeMy LifeLostDoneLegs
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
Sienna Miller
ChangeLiveAgeTimeCultureSmart
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg
LifeMaturityPeopleCityAction
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
Maryanne Wolf
WorkCreativeEmpathyRestReading
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Joseph Barbera
HopeStopTeachHimPointCat
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.
Jonas Mekas
LifeWalkWordsThinkCameraCinema
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
David Wilkerson
BrooklynMiraclesHappenStreets
My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.
Chris Cornell
PeopleGoldSongRestBackFirst
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.
LifeGoodMusicAgeTimeRest
We saw for a time that digital currencies were radioactive to banks, but that's not the case anymore.
Chris Larsen
TimeDigitalSawRadioactiveBanks
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
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