#representative

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#care #craves #creativity #destiny #diligence

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#into #pay #representatives #security #senate

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve. ↗

— William Hague

#deserve #earned #finding #foreign #get

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#chosen #determine #elders #entitled #exercise

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society