#matter

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#builds #career #choose #even #foundation

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#attractive #certain #confidence #dark #dark hair

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. ↗

— Dan Millman

#applying #doubt #fear #feel #key

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. ↗

— David Minge

#after #appeals #appointed #conservation #consulting

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exercise #inanimate #matter #war #will

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#fled #god #had #him #i

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist