#act

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#fear #hysteria #overreaction #panic #paranoia

Character is just an invention.... It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives... and the longer we live with it the more boxed in we are by the rapidly diminishing variedness of our imagined selves. What we can't ever accept is that we might never know who we are. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie from Broken Verses

#knowing-oneself #imagination

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#control #create #man #mind

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#i #i do #mean #never #people

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspirational #taking-action #inspirational

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) One time. When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock) Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop) Even love is a struggle and it's all we got. So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top. 'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours... ↗

— Justin Bieber

#girls #inspirational #love #singers #talent

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#agreement-with-reality #inspirational #intent #life #perspective

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boldness #curiosity #inspirational

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#duty #inspirational #morality #inspirational

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction. ↗