#hem

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. ↗

— Andre Weil

#first #mathematicians #people #rate #second

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#dance #funk #get #hip-hop #i

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#ideas #making #new #new ideas #new ways

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#cover #heavens #more #nothing #poetic

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#breaks #competitor #competitors #drive #find

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#driven #enormous #excel #good #great

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#because #careless #children #days #habitual