#iona

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#attach #care #cult #goddess #herself

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#air #air force #base #brave #brave soldiers

Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead ↗

— John Paul Warren

#leadership #motivational #leadership

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#according #age #alcohol #begins #first

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#distortions #irrational #like #lot #my self

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential”. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #mens-ministry #motivational

I was an emotional basket case. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#case #emotional #i