#stead

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. ↗

— David Duchovny

#get #instead #key #know #people

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#got #hold #i #lord #me

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#audience #cgi #consistently #emotion #enterprise

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning. ↗

— John Walters

#beginning #dinner #event #having #instead

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#day #every #every day #golf #hours

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#celebrate #celebration #club #clubs #day

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income. ↗

— Allen West

#capital gains #doing #gains #governor #governor romney

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ↗

— George Will

#emancipation #his #individual #passions #politics