#elves

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#began #believe #benefited #cared #could

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ↗

— Willa Cather

#fiercely #go #had #happened #human

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

#i #make #me #never #photographs

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#greatest #human #human souls #look #makes

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#female #had #main #now #ourselves

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#last #long #main #much #people

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ↗

— Pam Brown

#beautiful #capability #dreams #escape #existence