#mit

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conformity #men

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#duty #patriotism #sacrifice #war #men

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#faults #men #suspecting #men

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation. ↗

— Rick Rubin

#artist #best #best work #goal #hip

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They can only imitate but never create. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#create #imitate #inspirational #youth #inspirational

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#inspirational

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ↗

— Bishop Desmond Tutu

#inspiration #inspirational

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. ↗

— C.Toni Graham

#author #c-toni-graham #commitment #inspirational #ya-author

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. ↗

— John Mayer

#dedication #imagination #inspiration #imagination