#tru

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. ↗

— John Blair

#acts #alone #black #block #commented

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#painful #something #true #very #written

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#into #me #person #racism #self-destructive

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #bad #come #doing #done

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#actual #amps #beautiful #been #bending

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable. ↗

— Selma Blair

#get #i #kind #me #never

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #loving #truest #truest wisdom #wisdom

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#another #be brave #brave #electric #encourages