#though

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. ↗

— Colin Firth

#good #good work #i #indifferent #knew

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#enjoy #here #i #luck #most

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#any #belongs #brought #classroom #forth

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. ↗

— George Orwell

#though #war #wound #experience

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#between #cameraman #close #costume #course

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#bad #better #comfort #could #find

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#being #emotional #fifteen #i #involved

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there. ↗

— Mac Davis

#born #called #circle #die #grow

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#drink #i #i can #kind #know