#themselves

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#championships #motivate #ones #themselves #want

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#human #human society #i #insist #invaded

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#fate #firmness #having #love #make

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#for the people #help #leaders #leaving #long-term

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#characteristic #look #project #themselves #upon

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#come #common #common thing #does #i