#nin

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#natural #need #plants #pruning #study

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ↗

— Bille August

#cut #how #know #prepared #shoot

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#alive #arise #breathe #enjoy #love

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#been #big #came #circuit #france

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#dismantle #ever #government #pentagon #proposal

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#everyone #feel #freedom #gaza #i

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#change #character #conviction #defining #essential