#elf

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. ↗

— James Franco

#after #during #educating #english #english major

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barrier #determination #development #feelings #help

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#achieving #end #free #free society #itself

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#certain level #i #inflicted #insanity #level

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#by the time #family #friends #i #judge

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#anyone #did #example #hurt #i

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. ↗

— James Galway

#flute #get #get a real #having #i

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #confidence #inspiration #life #marriage

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#child #eyes #give #helped #i