“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.” WayWellsI CanImportantSometimesStatesBigsBeautifulCan DoMy OwnMistakeBrainHellWillingProjectsLuckComplicatedStrikesAwfulConvinceMaking MistakesReverenceRight WayFreezeI Can Do ItSave MeInadequacySweating Author:Katherine Dunn
“The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.” IfsWorldFirstsWarStatesMotivationalChoicesGivenDifferencesMy OwnPovertyOne ThingTelevisionEqualDiseaseFairsAffairMaking A DifferenceReportsBetter PlaceFamine Author:Chrissie Wellington
“I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.” PeopleIfsStatesMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesThousandBasesTownsIntuitionExperimentsMediumsSufficientGermanyCampsNaziPersonnelNazi GermanyDeath Camps Author:Stanley Milgram
“As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state.” PeopleWorldWantStatesAmericaValuesNationsGoalMy OwnSupportBuiltTraditionJewIsraelMinoritiesForefathers Author:David Duke
“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingWellsLooksMeanMadeStatesPastFacesYoungUsedSongGirlFatherCausesWaterMy OwnDarknessSunSeaReflectionRiversFishesBoatCharmLakesFishingSwimmingFabricHookBaitBitingSalmonJuanWashington State Author:Tess Gallagher
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."” MindStatesSpiritualJoyOpportunityMy OwnAbilitySelf ImprovementImprovementCelebrateFulfillmentContributionSincereState Of MindSelfless Author:Tony Robbins
“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.” WorldShouldStatesTermMy OwnSimpleViewsModelsManagementComplexesCurriculum Author:Dan Ariely
“I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.” StatesHomeLastsHateMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesWeekStreetsFashionCitizensCrossesI HateLovelyFeminineIndividualismArtificialCoatsFifthAvenuesRippedGownsRefrigeratorsFifth AvenuePosies Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power” StatesFactsBeliefGrowthMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesResponsibleQualifiedBeing ResponsibleUnqualified Book:Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism Source: Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
“As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.” IfsWorldLifeMadeCountryStatesValuesFightingHouseWishMy OwnMembersUnionsCommittedFranceFifthEuropean UnionWorld Power Author:Julian Assange
“Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.” WellsStatesBigsChurchMy OwnBelieverSeparationFollowersChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateCivics Author:Barack Obama
“I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.” IfsWantWritingI CanDifferentStatesStoriesWould BeInterestMy OwnImagineApproachExperimentsPsychologicalDifferent ThingsRelaxed Author:Kate Atkinson
“My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.” StatesAbleMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesStudyDaughterTurkeysHeadscarves Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan