#formative

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. ↗

— James Laughlin

#cam #case #certainly #deal #formative

It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#appetite #been #big #economy #events

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#development #formative-years #maturity #memory #age

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#disintegrating #entirely #force #formative #liberalism

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#music #transformative #utterly

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything. ↗

— Gary Neville

#against #areas #around #been #began

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. ↗

— David E. Price

#both #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #drew

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#about #best #family #just #money

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#age #chance #gives #greater #income

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force