#mit

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire

What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better. ↗

— America Ferrera

#better #challenges #change #commitment #conscious

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#free #imitators #initiative #learn #mere

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#after #antiquity #applied #apply #conscience

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#begining #i #i am #imitators #like

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#got #me #never #nice #nothing

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#analysis #cool #detached #i #low

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it. ↗

— Lee Child

#admit #civilised #doubt #happy #head

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#barriers #become #broken #childhood #common