#ra

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#characters #completely #constantly #fictional #great

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#already #answers #generally #information #lot

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. ↗

— John P. Kotter

#future #getting #leaders #set #strategy

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#courage #feel #full #i #i am

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#college #forgot #graduate #i

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#common #different #dresses #fit #i

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#cold #efficient #eliminate #fact #fraud

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience