“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.” CharacterLawLife IsValuesIndividualBrokenThousandIdealsGoldGenuineDespiteBrownDiverseStampsMintJohn Brown Book:Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second
“I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.” MayIndividualRaceGoldSeasonsClimateWeatherDryTemperSensibilityVacuumsRainyRainy Season Author:Gertrude Diamant
“Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.” ThinkingMayMightLyingIndividualBeliefIssuesOur LivesConditionsBuildingGoldBasesBottomCreditArchitectureReviewsMetalsReservesCautionTokensVaultsIndividual LifeCredence Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.” ThinkingLittlesEnoughWantedTurnsIndividualGoldFairyGood EnoughRealisingPrincessFairy Princess Author:Princess Diana
“I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.” YearsDoneIndividualCareersAmountSixGoldPressureOlympicsMedalGold MedalsGet It DoneProfessional Career Author:Michael Johnson
“The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.” PoliticalTurnsIndividualBeliefForceSocialCausesPowerfulSituationEconomicMaterialsCircumstancesIntellectualGoldTestsMetaphorHeritageMetalsTransformedSevereVesselDictionaryTemperatureMedievalMeltingAlchemistCrucibleAudaciousConfluence Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.” FirstsMeanHardDreamWinningIndividualEffortKnowingSacrificeMinesHard WorkMy FamilyGoldAfrican AmericanGymMedalGold MedalsOlympic Medals Author:Gabby Douglas
“When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindIndividualCuttingSeriousGoldPoetry IsSelectWriting Poetry Author:Ana Castillo
“It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.” WorldIndividualTreeSkyFieldsThousandPerfectionGoldSightBlueGreenLandscapeAutumnShadeOrangeHighwaysVividLuminousFieryBlue SkyHueScarletCrispsSumptuousGreen Fields Author:Bill Bryson
“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.” MenWayMindIdeasIndividualNaturalNumbersOpinionInfluenceCivilizationGoldOrganizationIndependentPressesFinancialCrowdsPropagandaToneRelyOppositionPublic OpinionUnnaturalRevive Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.” IndividualMemoriesTeamHonorStandingGoldOlympicsMedalTeammateGold MedalsOlympic GamesStanding AloneOlympics GamesOlympic MedalsBronze Medal Author:Mitch Gaylord