#art

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#body #body image #bought #diet #every

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #anyone #art #avoids #been

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ↗

— Jack Welch

#business #business leaders #completion #create #drive

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#better #changes #engagement #lives #people

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it. ↗

— Emma Watson

#complete #control #desperately #find #found

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#because #been #bored #come #doing

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#build #class #company #computer #demanding

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. ↗

— Simone Weil

#consumed #district #fabrication #like #most

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. ↗

— Simone Weil

#any #arts #considers #critic #every