#tent

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#any #attention #been #carbohydrates #country

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#cleaning #contented #cooking #make #need

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing. ↗

— Little Richard

#attention #because #doing #drew #enhanced

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. ↗

— Little Richard

#god #omnipotent #omniscient #present

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. ↗

— Little Richard

#child #i #kind #really #shy

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. ↗

— Little Richard

#company #i #like #me #mother

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#anthropology #before #bible #decision #existential

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#being #capable #chances #could #fulfilled

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. ↗

— Michael Porter

#consistent #continuity #continuous #direction #each

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#anyone #before #even #going #history