#con

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#combined #connection #equality #eu #form

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#art #because #comes #consensus #convincing

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#add #consonants #dots #equation #hebrew

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. ↗

— Fred Durst

#being #contest #fighting #i #limp

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#believe #chicago #conditions #could #europe

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #folks #just #people #seem

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#bad #bad girl #because #been #consequences

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#barbra #barbra streisand #concerts #course #directing

If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available "measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social world" (DeGrandpre, 2000, p. 733). With respect to fuzzy meaning, realistic optimism involves enhancing and focusing on the favorable aspects of our experiences. Examples include being lenient in our evaluation of past events, actively appreciating the positive aspects of our current situation, and routinely emphasizing possible opportunities for the future. With respect to fuzzy knowledge, realistic optimism involves hoping, aspiring, and searching for positive experiences while acknowledging what we do not know and accepting what we cannot know. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#constraints #evaluation #opportunities #optimism #positivity

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deny #never #peace #peace and quiet #quiet