#sights

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#certainly #change #deep #goes #ideas

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art history #artist #becoming #contribution #history

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #chinese #every #experience

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. ↗

— Richard Masur

#also #community #contact #deaf #deaf people

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#escape #game #i #park #place

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature