“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.” PersonsLongI CanPayBecomingNeededLong TimeManagersHomelessMortgage Author:Cat Power
“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'” WayFirstsLittlesLongSaidStillsKidsFeltBitsNeededProveLetting GoMarriedLittle BitLong WayJust Let Go Author:Christine Taylor
“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.” LongEnoughRunningMotherForgetFamilyMomNeededMy MomBridgesBeing A MomYour MomMotheringMother LoveMother's LoveYour MumMother ProverbsLove For My MotherMother And Daughter RelationshipI Love My Mother Book:I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings Source: I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings
“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.” IfsLongAdviceEmotionalNeededAngerOutburstEmotional Outbursts Author:Peter McWilliams
“Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.” KnowsYearsBelieveHeartMeanLongStatesDreamWould BeJobsGirlNextLevelsCollegeAdventureNeededMy HeartUniversityPassionateWork OutEntrepreneurshipMiserableBrokeSilverRejectedSoulmateSpainVowLeading MeNext LevelBroke My HeartDream JobThings Work OutThings Will Work OutMy SoulmateEverything Works Out Author:Steve Jobs
“Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.” GivingMayLongCausesClearEffectsNeededMake SenseImpossibilityEloquentBrevityRenderingPausingWorkmanshipCompression Author:Laura Riding
“Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.” FirstsWellsLongArtFieldsNeededCriticismPursuitLogicalAcademicBorrowing Author:James Elkins