#import

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#am #ask #attitudes #carbon #change

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #college #drop #families #going

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#men

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#respect #sincere #respect

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#quality #virtue #virtue

If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He spread his arms wide. "If you were writing songs with it, you'd be holed up in your room in the middle of the night, scribbling them in a notebook and feeling self-important. You'd think you were getting it out, but really you'd be keeping it inside and quiet. You'd take what upset you and turn it into art, and now it would fester, because you think other people ought to share your outrage at what happened to you. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#energy #feeling #giving-and-receiving #outrage #sam

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#best #bottom #every #how #learns

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#day #important #lives #music #our

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i do #important #live #living