#use

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #come #gain #go #intimidating

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #bored #boredom #complete #death

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#need #power #simply #us #use

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#different #each #enjoy #great #groups

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#being #dreams #feet #i #only

I wondered if I could get a witch to cast a truth spell on Debbie Pelt, whom I despised because she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and--oh--tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. ↗

— Charlainne Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #vampires #humor

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspirational #taking-action #inspirational

Evil report carries further than any applause. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#applause #carries #evil #further #report

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#save #share #talent #use-or-lose #life