#ura

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. ↗

— Sela Ward

#art #department #encouraged #go #gone

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#assumption #been #cause #confirms #event

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#benefits #build #business #company #encouraging

PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated. ↗

— John Whiting

#also #could #earn #estimated #mean

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#virtues #courage

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#blind #body #brain #breathing #daughter

I’ve found the things I’ve regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I’m beginning to think I don’t want you to become one of my what-if-I’d-only-tried-it regrets. ↗

— Linda Kage

#courage

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. ↗

— Joanna Brooks

#courage

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bounce #encouraged #everyone #go #i

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity