“In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.” UsedMy OwnPayRolesKnowingProgressHusbandAreasBillsUnionsSurrenderTraditionalMy HusbandCompetence Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.” IfsImportantLiteratureMy OwnJudgmentAreasAgreeDetermineEditorials Author:Katie Couric
“Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.” NeedsHeartLittlesI CanMy OwnCasesBrokenAreasSafetyRetreatHeart Broke Author:Suzi Quatro
“I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.” KnowsArtMy OwnKnow HowAreasVery GoodEvaluate Author:Sydney Pollack
“It occurred to me that for a long time I tried not to write about my own backyard and my home. I suppose I was selfishly keeping it to my self. And in doing so, I was never able to get out into this incredible wilderness area - by the way, I live right at the edge of the most incredible wilderness area probably in the northern hemisphere.” WayWritingLongSelfHomeAbleMy OwnLong TimeAreasIncrediblesEdgesWildernessBackyardsHemisphere Author:Tim Cahill
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.” EnergyWaterChallengesMy OwnCompanySuccessfulFocusMoonSkillsAreasEntrepreneurCleanSolveMy TimeHealthcareFundingClean WaterSuccessful Company Author:Naveen Jain
“My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.” PeopleWayUsedCultureMy OwnFictionAreasConcernPassionateUsed To BeMargins Author:Matthew Specktor
“One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.” YearsMadeHomeEyeThreeMy OwnDecisionFiveWiseLandBuildingAreasPropertyPlanningBuyingPlotThree YearsPermissionBedroomWise DecisionRichmond Author:Anthea Turner
“I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.” CertainMy OwnAuthorityAreasSerials Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional.” ThinkingWellsArtAbleSchoolArtistFallMy OwnWalksKnownStreetsAreasProgramLocalsFacultyApartmentWell KnownCousinJuneAvenuesInstituteArt SchoolBlairMy CousinGis Author:Paul Smith
“I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.” IfsImportantMy OwnPathParticularAreasIndividualityThings To DoBetter Things To Do Author:Lewis Schiff
“I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.” GivingLooksMy OwnMoralSupportAdviceTheoryAreasIntuitionExperimentsExplanationCrucialSensitivityConstructsInference Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of view. Although I think the values were very clear and were presented very clearly, there's - there were aspects of the whole tradition that were not emphasized. And, you know, I've come to those areas myself as I've grown older. But I would like to go deeper.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWholeCertainValuesMy OwnViewsStudyClearAreasAspectTraditionDeeperPoint Of ViewSuperficialJudaism Author:Leonard Cohen
“I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.” StillsRunningKidsFilmRomanceHouseSpeakStuffMy OwnGrewGrew UpAreasNeighborhoodItalianItalian American Author:Martin Scorsese
“I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.” YearsMy OwnHalfHugeGoes OnAreasBoatFantasticBeachIslandsWildernessHuntingAcresSafariJetty Author:Wilbur Smith
“At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.” MadeFeelingsAgeSpiritSufferingHoursMy OwnAttitudeAliveAreasEndureCaughtSeekingInsightCriticalViolentPeacefulTwelveSkepticalSuffering Of Others Book:Black Boy Source: Black Boy