#elf

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#away #back #bring #desire #fading

I've spent my life supporting myself. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#life #my life #myself #spent #supporting

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#certainties #comfort #i #love #me

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feels #himself #males #mediocre #most

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#entrepreneurial spirit #hard #i #just #myself

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#achieving #build #character #discipline #goal

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#clear #concept #ecology #employment #forced

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. ↗

— Walter Becker

#aside #been #i #musician #other