“When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.” IfsThinkingFirstsEarthMy OwnSunDoubtHeardAtheismHigherLipsConvictionWanderNo DoubtRaysCavesLutherNoonHappier Life Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.” IfsLooksLittlesSeemsMightJobsBitsMy OwnHeardEasierLittle BitStandardsRejectionCakeAuditionsIcingIcing On The Cake Author:Wentworth Miller
“One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.” WayWantSaidDifferentBigsFilmNextActorsMy OwnHeardDirectorsPushingCastingLeonardoCasting Directors Author:Devon Sawa
“My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.” ChildrenStoriesUsedCertainFatherMy OwnHeardTendenciesVariation Author:Wole Soyinka
“'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.” ThinkingDifferentMightScienceMy OwnHeardMajorsBuiltMachinesMathematicsEnginesSkullsAnalytics Author:David Leavitt
“I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.” WritingMindMy OwnIssuesHeardSakeActiveJuiceWriting Music Author:Billy Joel
“I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.” IfsKnowsStuffMy OwnWrittenHeardBunchEdification Author:Billy Joel
“All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.” IfsHandsRunningTogetherFacesForceFeltSoundMy OwnBehindsHeardPressureHotRisingBreastsGrayYellowNurseBowlsSoupRushingCorridorsSupernatural Forces Book:March Source: March
“I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.” KnowsYearsSongFoundSoundMy OwnWrittenHeardWorstDecidedVillageOld You Author:Wyclef Jean
“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.” YearsSelfStoriesWantedPastMy OwnPiecesHeardCoupleI RealizedBrandsIsolationTeenageOver The PastOhioInvisibility Author:Travis Mathews