#though

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom. ↗

— Olan Rogers

#personality #thoughtful #inspirational

The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#thoughts #inspirational

He always applied all his means, all his faculties, all his attention to the action or discussion of the moment, into everything he put passion. Hence the enormous advantage he had over his adversaries, for few people are entirely absorbed by one thought, or one action at one moment. ↗

— Caulaincourt on Napoleon

#inspiration #napoleon-boneparte #passion #thought #inspirational

Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#because #catering #chart #era #girl

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that? ↗

— John Green

#nerd #nerds #nerdy #thoughtful #intelligence

What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet? ↗

— Debra Formo

#new-thought #self-awareness #inspirational

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness #inspirational #self #self-development #self-improvement

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#first time #i #life #looked #my life

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lizzy #people #thoughts #life