#sm

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#been #countries #important #much #order

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#back #coming #enormous #glad #going

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#blondes #disagree #i #smarter #stupid

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#conservatism #glorious #orthodoxy #our #pit

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#country #dream #film #impossible #just

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire. ↗

— Patti Smith

#patti-smith #transcendence #freedom

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#rainbows #span #tears #till #veil

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current. ↗

— Jerry Porras

#leadership #meaning #leadership

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#hinduism #independence #leadership #vedanta #leadership