#then

Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#debra-moffitt #following-a-unique-path #life-journey #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul-dance

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#blame #bombs #care #either #else

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. ↗

— Amar Bose

#angles #arriving #audience #back #boston

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. ↗

— James Bovard

#becomes #board #democratic #democratic system #destroy

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#get #girl #good #helped #her

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#because #break #create #each #ever

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#first #go #seek #then #victorious

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#apparently #benefit #charity #clinton #free

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#annihilation #confront #danger #deadly #fall