#met

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#build #commitment #culture #gift #learn

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#be happy #finding #happiness #happy #high

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#art #article #artistic #beauty #character

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life. ↗

— Kate Mara

#crazy #even #i #life #never

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#ancestry #back #enough #far #go

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#because #clear #clear vision #fall #give

We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment. ↗

— Jim Thome

#mistakes #moment #realize #really #say

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#arithmetical #computations #desire #economize #effort

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened