#hard

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#based #belief #get #hard #media

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#ask #chips #conviction #deep #deep conviction

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#appreciate #could #get #hard #i

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#because #better #found #harder #i

There was no one around me who didn't work hard. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#hard #me #who #work #work hard

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. ↗

— Edith Evans

#artist #down #hard #her #justified

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#children #feel #got #hard #i

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#character #hard #hard work #noses #people

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind