“If you think of building your life the way you build a house, it can help you see how important having a strong foundation is”
Source: The Confident Speaker: Tools to Overcome Your Fear in Public Speaking
“Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organisation, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped potential. . . .
Here, then. lies the central problem of development. If the primary causes of poverty are deficiencies in these three respects, then the alleviation of poverty depends primarily on the removal of these deficiencies. Here lies the reason why development cannot be an act of creation. why it cannot be ordered, bought, comprehensively planned: why it requires a process of evolution.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“Nervousness is easily read if you fidget or avoid eye contact”
Source: The Confident Speaker: Tools to Overcome Your Fear in Public Speaking
“Far too often I attempt to create that which God has already created. And maybe what I need to ‘create’ is the understanding that I will always fail to outdo what God has already done.”
“I wonder what it feels like. To be so fast you can get away whenever you want and to be so sure of yourself that you don't care who is watching.”
Source: Wing Jones
“I am smart, I am brave, I can do just anything. I believe and I receive, right now faith is what I need”
Source: Ella's Greatest Adventures
“There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don't find it profitable to feel anymore”
Source: The dream that dared to become a man
“It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
“They will tell us we can be better than queens of the wild great something. They already told us we couldn’t be fairy princesses or white knights or dragon slayers. They will tell us to grow up, be serious. They will tell us to fight for a spot at the table. But now, we don’t. We desecrate their tables. We dance on tables. We take really big swords and hack those tables into tiny little pieces.”
Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For
“Embrace the suck. Let your guts hang out a little.”
Source: Leah on the Offbeat