#term

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ↗

— Robert Redford

#art #honor #politics #putting #seductive

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. ↗

— Robert Reich

#build #collaborative #entire #innovative #leader

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#about #accomplish #always #ball player #best

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#determinism #free-will #knowledge #life #life

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. ↗

— Barney Frank

#democracies #elections #england #israel #japan

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too. ↗

— Frank Rich

#david #david letterman #goes #gore #letterman

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#act #beings #determine #events #future

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ↗

— George Eliot

#determine #much #our #us

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #battle #compromise #contestants #determine

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#because #been #come #had #history