#nin

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#almost #antidote #aspect #concept #emotion

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #retirement-planning #change

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience. ↗

— Siva Vaidhyanathan

#learning #teaching #change

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#running #change

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conditioning #immoral #violence #change

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#change #city-planning #growth #change

Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#meaningful #change

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed. ↗

— Dan Gilbert

#climate-messaging #cognitive-functioning #dan-gilbert #global-warming #change

A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#change

I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since. ↗

— Ma Kettle

#humor #change