#is

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be. ↗

— Margie Warrell

#fear #risk #courage

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#courage #men #sexism #women #courage

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#distraction #p #art

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

#artist #creative-process #creativity #ideas #inspiration

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#front #get #i #kill #many

As long as I live, I will have control over my being." Talk about a woman who was ahead of her time. ↗

— Artemisia Gentileschi (

#art

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #art

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#detroit #few #following #history #nhl

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. ↗

— Dan Millman

#faith #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #leanring #life

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#misery #necessity #need #art