#through

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ↗

— Ariel Dorfman

#fate #power #responsibility #secretary #through

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#contemplation #create #does #mere #our

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#composer #director #film #head #i

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#because #been #before #daniel #fbi

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ↗

— Ben Elton

#count #dependent #first #get #how

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #corners #days #disturbing #forum

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#against #art #born #breakthroughs #go

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. ↗

— Michael Franti

#allow #bring #demons #either #feel

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#beautiful #beautiful thing #being #body #cool