#age

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#any #except #funny #i #neither

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#body #combine #exercise #heart #keep

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.' ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#already #because #community #decided #got

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#agency #asked #auditions #day #doing

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ↗

— Alan Watts

#make #myth #sense #terms #try

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#call #consists #difficult #done #get

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#average #average person #capable #competence #developed

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. ↗

— James Bovard

#agents #child #child support #daily #daily lives

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#brave #courage #cowardice #dangers #desperate