#gettin

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#attention #critics #flaws #fluke #getting

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#become #better #develops #economy #expands

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #being content #content #get #getting

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider. ↗

— Tom Morello

#between #bowl #corporate #disparity #each

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#getting #getting married #important #important thing #life

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#anyway #audiences #been #collapsed #eating

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#getting #i #like #me #seemed

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#inspiration #productivity #success #time-management #inspirational

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#dressed #getting #getting dressed #i #i love