#thing

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#enough #great #great things #needed #plan

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ↗

— Halle Berry

#career #ever #get #i #meaningful

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen. ↗

— Halle Berry

#anything #i #on-screen #portraying

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#bad #better #definition #escape #good

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#anything #because #child #divorce #fault

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#because #go #goals #i #lap

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#factor #faith #first #impossible #life