#mina

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#empowerment #girls #identity #individuality #self-determination

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#becoming #bottom #bottom line #break #day

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#career #examinations #finally #found #i

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #communications #country #disseminate

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#body #brain #burnt #canada #clients

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#anything #criminal #i #never #qualify

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. ↗

— Patty Berg

#concentration #dedication #desire #determination #does

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes